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
mean eye men
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
book reading succeed
Books succeed; and lives fail.
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.
time rare-things
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
cousin hands blood
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
thee ifs
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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
long standing monument
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
writing kissing romantic-love
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
respect statistics genius
Since when was genius found respectable?
marriage sweet-love philosophy
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
god faith religious
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.