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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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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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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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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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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.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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