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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
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
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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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Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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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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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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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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I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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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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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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