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
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.
wish lilies trophies
I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
love wedding soulmate
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
heart men fire
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
brother grief names
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
music pain men
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.
eye years wind
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
flower may cups
The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...