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
truth pain soul
truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
people too-much hospitality
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...
money thinking being-free
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?
purple lilies prophet
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
book reading profound
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
heart ambition care
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
criticism together foolishness
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
dream men blue
How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one; But shadows ever man pursue.
grief heaven sorrow
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.
soul world dangerous
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.
believe men wish
You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
tyrants use injustice
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
drinking gnats rose
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
wall ivy weather
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.