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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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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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A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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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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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
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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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