Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 10

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• Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Heart, Destiny

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.230

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• "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)

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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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Thrones, Golden

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

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• Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Wings, Dove

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• For me, my heart, that erst did go
  Most like a tired child at a show,
  That sees through tears the mummers leap,
  Would now its wearied vision close,
  Would childlike on His love repose,
  Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1882). “'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

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• A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mad, Sometimes, Pity

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

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• Books are men of higher stature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Men, Higher

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.503

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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Memorable

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• Books succeed; and lives fail.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Succeed

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

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• Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Boys, Men, Opinion

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1063, Delphi Classics

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• Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
  Pan, Pan is dead!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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• O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
  O men, with wailing in your voices!
  O delved gold, the wader's heap!
  O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
  God makes a silence through you all,
  And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Fall, Sleep

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Solitude, Tears

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• But I love you, sir:
  And when a woman says she loves a man,
  The man must hear her, though he love her not.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Love You, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Criticism, Together, Foolishness

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• Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Courses, Seems

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.2223, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Grief, Names

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

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Men, Wish

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.343

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Hopeless, Hopelessness

  'Grief' (1844)

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• God keeps a niche
  In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
  He brake them to our faces, and denied
  That our close kisses should impair their white,--
  I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
  The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
  New Memnons singing in the great God-light.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kissing, Light, Dust

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.81

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• Tis aye a solemn thing to me
  To look upon a babe that sleeps--
  Wearing in its spirit-deeps
  The unrevealed mystery
  Of its Adam's taint and woe,
  Which, when they revealed lie,
  Will not let it slumber so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lying, Sleep, Looks

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783”

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• The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Ambition, Care

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Kelley, Ronald Hudson (1987). “The Brownings' correspondence”

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• He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cousin, Blood, Hands

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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