Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 7

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• Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work

  "The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With Two Prose Essays".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Eye, Winning

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.96

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• We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Imagination, Rakes, Earth

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• Some people always sigh in thanking God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, People, Thank God

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Warm

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.93

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• But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Justice, Genius

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.81

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, God, Religious

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 2, l. 952

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• And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Air, Rose, Spirit

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

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• Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Squares, Cities, Pleasure

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.42, Everyman's Library

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• The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Stars, Prayer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.52

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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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• You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, One Day, Twenties

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.37, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

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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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• Many a crown
  Covers bald foreheads.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Crowns, Royalty, Foreheads

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

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tyrants, Use, Injustice

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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