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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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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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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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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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Since when was genius found respectable?
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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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