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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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