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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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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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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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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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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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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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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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