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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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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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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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You're something between a dream and a miracle.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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