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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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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.
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Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
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And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair And they heard the words it said,- Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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Of writing many books there is no end.
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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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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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She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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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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