Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browningwas one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 March 1806
gratitude grateful wine
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
witty devil respectable
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
love zero tennis
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
beauty beautiful weakness
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
children brain age
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
men boys opinion
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
life love-you men
But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
life should thee
For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.
life thee worthy
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
life stars flower
Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
patience mean
I worked with patience which means almost power.
patience gestures bears
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
patience strong
In your patience ye are strong.
rose touching tears
Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.