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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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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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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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