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Books succeed and lives fail.
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
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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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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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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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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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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The plague of gold strikes far and near.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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