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Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
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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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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
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Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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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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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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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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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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The plague of gold strikes far and near.
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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
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