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In your patience ye are strong.
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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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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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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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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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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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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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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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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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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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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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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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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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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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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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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