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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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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.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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