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
strong thinking ivy
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
past age ill
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
men good-man may
May the good God pardon all good men.
past feet history
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
women way praying
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
work littles
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
dream heart destiny
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.
democracy half bears
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
business soul curls
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
world conformity
Never say No when the world says Aye.
women mystery
Eve is a twofold mystery.
mother motherhood license
So mothers have God's license to be missed.
larks littles soar
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
book men speak
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.