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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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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OF writing many books there is no end And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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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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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.
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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.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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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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It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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