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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.
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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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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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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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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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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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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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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But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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