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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
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Durham
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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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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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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe. Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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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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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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