Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 9

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• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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• The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Business, Soul, Curls

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Baby, Stars

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• So mothers have God's license to be missed.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mother, Motherhood, License

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.322

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• 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

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• The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Flower, Dew, May

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.208

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• Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Men, Brain

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• Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lightning, Awful

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.163, Everyman's Library

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• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.146, Broadview Press

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• But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Breaths, Fairs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.511

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• She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Egypt, Pyramids, Mystery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.507

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• The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Light, Calling, Way

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.418

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• Of writing many books there is no end.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Writing, Ends

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.1

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• For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Democracy, Half, Bears

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.132

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• For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Men, Dying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.358

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• 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

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• But love me for love's sake, that evermore
  Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Friendship Love, May, Sake

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.144

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• Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thinking, Shadow, Watches

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1844). “Poems”, p.164

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• 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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• Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Men, Ease

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

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• And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  God, Lips, Said

  "Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Writing, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.403

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• The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eagles, Wings, Genius

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Thinking, Ivy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.40

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• I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Talking, Years

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.23, The Floating Press

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