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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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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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.
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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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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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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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