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
death god life love shall thee
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
love lying thinking
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
love wedding soulmate
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
love eye winning
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
love pain use
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
may sake friendship-love
But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
love believe impossible
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
love justice genius
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
love firsts events
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
love beautiful dream
My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
love-is our-love beloved
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
grace vain still-in-love
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
love romantic sweet
Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
book love-you writing
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.