Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Men, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

• 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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Hopeless, Hopelessness

  'Grief' (1844)

• 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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Grief, Names

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.348

• Earth may embitter, not remove,
  The love divinely given;
  And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
  The immortality of love,
  And lead us nearer heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Heaven, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.360

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