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
greatness men clean
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
strong children men
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
ignorance mean greatness
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
love dream wine
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
heart warm
We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.
deeds pay monsters
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
love sake ifs
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.