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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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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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The essence of all beauty, I call love.
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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat, Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.
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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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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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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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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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A grave, on which to rest from singing?
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