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The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yet love me
wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Art is much, but love is more ...
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I shall but love thee bitter after death
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I worked with patience which means almost power.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love that endures, from life that disappears!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My sun sets to raise again.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The essence of all beauty, I call love.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The world of books is still the world.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And if God choose
I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Some people always sigh in thanking God.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Will that light come again,
As now these tears come ... falling hot and real! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As now these tears come ... falling hot and real! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Two human loves make one divine.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yet how proud we are,
In daring to look down upon ourselves! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In daring to look down upon ourselves! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Staring, winking at the skies. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whoso loves, believes in the impossible
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thou comest! all is said without a word.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Since when was genius found respectable?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And be all to me? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
— Dorothy Fields
Earth's crammed with Heaven.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Silence is the best response to a fool ...
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me ... -toll
The silver iterance! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That thou dost love me ... -toll
The silver iterance! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love me sweet
With all thou art
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the Lightest part,
Love me in full Being. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With all thou art
Feeling, thinking, seeing;
Love me in the Lightest part,
Love me in full Being. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I cannot speak in happy tones.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And life is perfected by death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The devil's most devilish when respectable.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Get leave to work In this world,
'tis the best you get at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
'tis the best you get at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.
— Mary Russell Mitford
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning