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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
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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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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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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Light tomorrow with today!
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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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.
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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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