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O brave poets, keep back nothing Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
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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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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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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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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In your patience ye are strong.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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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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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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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
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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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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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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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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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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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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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