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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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