Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 8

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• He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cousin, Blood, Hands

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1158, Delphi Classics

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• But I love you, sir:
  And when a woman says she loves a man,
  The man must hear her, though he love her not.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Love You, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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• Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Wings, Dove

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love Is, Our Love, Beloved

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Dust

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• Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Rose, Touching, Tears

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• My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Long, Standing, Monument

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Kelley, Ronald Hudson (1987). “The Brownings' correspondence”

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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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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Solitude, Tears

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• The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Thrones, Golden

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

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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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• And I must bear
  What is ordained with patience, being aware
  Necessity doth front the universe
  With an invincible gesture.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Patience, Gestures, Bears

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.213, Delphi Classics

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• I worked with patience which means almost power.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Patience, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Purple, Lilies, Prophet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.279

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• They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

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• Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Courses, Seems

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.2223, Delphi Classics

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• Books are men of higher stature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Men, Higher

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.503

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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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• 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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• 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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• Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
  Pan, Pan is dead!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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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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• Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Utterance, Study, Evidence

  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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