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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.
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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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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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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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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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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May the good God pardon all good men.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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