Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, Past, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.235

• 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!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Angel, Past

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

• Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Past, Age, Ill

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.400

• If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Past, Feet, History

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.871, Delphi Classics

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