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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.
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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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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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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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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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.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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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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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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