Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 10

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Strong, Thinking, Ivy

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

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• There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Voice, Bells, Poet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.452

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• And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fall, Sleep, Tears

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

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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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• Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Giving, Serious Things

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• A great acacia, with its slender trunk
  And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
  (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
  And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
  Stood reconciling all the place with green.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dew, Green, Might

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

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• The plague of gold strikes far and near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gold, Strikes, Plague

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.273

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• Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
  . . . .
  That the wisest word man reaches
  Is the humblest he can speak?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Mountain, Speak

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

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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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• Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love
  Is something awful which one dare not touch
  So early o' mornings.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Mean, Love Is

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems”, p.38

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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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• 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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• 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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• Many a crown
  Covers bald foreheads.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Crowns, Royalty, Foreheads

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.332

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• How joyously the young sea-mew
  Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
  Whereon our little bark had thrown
  A little shade, the only one;
  But shadows ever man pursue.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Men, Blue

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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• Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.
  Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.
  The universe's inward voices cry
  "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.
  Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Voice, Joy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260

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• When God helps all the workers for His world,
  The singers shall have help of Him, not last.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Singers, Lasts

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

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• 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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• 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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