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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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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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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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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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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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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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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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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