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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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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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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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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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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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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