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
joy temptation capacity
Capacity for joy Admits temptation.
voice bells poet
There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
hands white lilies
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
work men ease
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
faith song real
God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.
creativity power ideas
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
sun raises sun-set
My sun sets to raise again.
angel past thinking
My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
life thee worthy
Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
girl stars prayer
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
death fall sleep
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.
proud looks daring
Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!
angel world mines
New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!