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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• 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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• 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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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

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  Time, Pain, Reading

  "The Barretts at Hope End: the early diary of Elizabeth Barrett Browning".

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• For none can express thee, though all should approve thee.
  I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Should, Thee

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.261

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Photography, Lying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Christian, Kings, Men

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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 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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• Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Cutting, Blood

  'Lady Geraldine's Courtship' (1844 st. 41

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• A grave, on which to rest from singing?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Singing, Graves

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.184, Everyman's Library

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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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• But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry Of The Children”

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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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• 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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