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
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.
love wedding soulmate
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
love eye winning
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
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.
love believe impossible
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
love justice genius
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
love firsts events
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
love-is our-love beloved
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
grace vain still-in-love
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
book love-you writing
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
famous-love grief passion
I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
famous-love long comfort
Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
love zero tennis
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
life love-you men
But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.