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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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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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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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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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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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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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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Books succeed and lives fail.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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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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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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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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