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• XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Song, Names

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Genius, Might

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• I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Clouds, House

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.665, Delphi Classics

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• I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Mean, Mind

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.181, The Floating Press

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• What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Monsters, Deeds, Pay

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1198, Delphi Classics

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• Behold me! I am worthy
  Of thy loving, for I love thee!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Thee, Worthy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.102

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• When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Events, Firsts

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

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• Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Music, Pain, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.519

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• The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Soul, He Man

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

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• There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Secret, Remember

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.34, Everyman's Library

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• Eve is a twofold mystery.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Mystery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.81

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• Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Men, Speak

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

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• She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Quiet, Enough, Virtuous

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.164, Everyman's Library

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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.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Grace, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• I work with patience, which is almost power.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Patience

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• Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Zero, Tennis

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• Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Prayer, Wish, Praying To God

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.353

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• Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  'The Cry of the Children' (1844) st. 1

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• Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Photography, Painting

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• New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, World, Mines

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

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• And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Hands, White, Lilies

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.369

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• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, World, Dangerous

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• Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Gregarious

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1984). “The Brownings' Correspondence”

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• 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

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• OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Love You, Writing

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.913, Delphi Classics

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