Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 11

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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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• Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Bird, East, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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