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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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Durham
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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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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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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.
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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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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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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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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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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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