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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
Essayist
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Durham
England
Mrs. Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
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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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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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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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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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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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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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Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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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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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.
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I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
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