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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.
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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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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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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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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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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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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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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