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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
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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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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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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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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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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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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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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