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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
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
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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 do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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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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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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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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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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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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In your patience ye are strong.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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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