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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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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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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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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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