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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!
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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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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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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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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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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