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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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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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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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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
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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.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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Light tomorrow with today!
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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