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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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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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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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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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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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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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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