Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Nosegays! leave them for the waking,
  Throw them earthward where they grew
  Dim are such, beside the breaking
  Amaranths he looks unto.
  Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

• A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.464

• Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Eye, Winning

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.96

• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Laughter, Eye

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

• "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful," Who ne'er said, "God be praised."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, School, Sorrow

  "The Cry of the Human" l. 7 (1844)

• What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Soul, Tears

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.59, The Floating Press

• Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Brighter

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

• Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sorry, Eye, Joyous

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.121

• Eyes of gentianellas azure,
  Staring, winking at the skies.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Sky, Azure

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.11

• And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Delight, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.142

• 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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Years, Wind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1873). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works”, p.303

• Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Looks, Violet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.236

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