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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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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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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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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