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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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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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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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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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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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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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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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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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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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