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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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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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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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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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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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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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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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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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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Of writing many books there is no end.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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