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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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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
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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Light tomorrow with today!
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In your patience ye are strong.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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