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
time pain reading
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
famous-love grief passion
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
beauty sun too-much
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
baby sweet stars
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!
light everyday needs
I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
time laughter eye
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
love eye winning
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
love firsts events
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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 believe impossible
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
life men
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
angel writing night
I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"
art women mean
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!
strong blessed dare
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!