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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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OF writing many books there is no end And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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Books succeed and lives fail.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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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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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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