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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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
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Mrs. Browning
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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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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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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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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 music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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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.
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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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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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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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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