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I cannot speak In happy tones the tear drops on my cheek Show I am sad But I can speak Of grace to suffer with submission meek, Until made glad.
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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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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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving Unless you can die when the dream is past Oh, never call it loving!
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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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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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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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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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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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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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Books succeed and lives fail.
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If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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Death forerunneth Love to win Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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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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May the good God pardon all good men.
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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