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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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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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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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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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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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OF writing many books there is no end And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
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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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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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