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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
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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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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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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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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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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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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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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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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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