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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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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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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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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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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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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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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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