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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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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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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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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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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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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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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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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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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Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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May the good God pardon all good men.
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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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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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