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
men roots growing
Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
music pain men
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
book writing men
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
men soul he-man
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
work men ease
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
life men
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
death men dies
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
christian kings men
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!
grief men air
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
strong children men
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
men breaths fairs
But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.
heart men fire
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
passion men use
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use
military hero men
All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.