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
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.
divinity divine chaucer
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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!
strong children kissing
A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
book writing ends
Of writing many books there is no end.
lightning awful
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
women men brain
Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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.
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.
eye sky azure
Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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!