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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
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Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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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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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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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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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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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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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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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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