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
inspirational goodbye dream
Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
love lying thinking
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
air rose spirit
And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"
beautiful fall health
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
love zero tennis
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
witty devil respectable
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
gratitude grateful wine
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
grief hopeless hopelessness
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
air breathe
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
morning cutting night
A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
death men dies
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
may sake friendship-love
But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
school eye sorrow
"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."
love pain use
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.