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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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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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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.
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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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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings and lo! they are flown.
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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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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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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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