Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Famous Quotes & Sayings
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
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.
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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.
I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
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
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
I have done most of my talking by post of late years
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
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.
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge.
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge.