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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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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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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That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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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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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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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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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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