Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 8

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• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Divinity, Divine, Chaucer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.145, Broadview Press

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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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• Of writing many books there is no end.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Writing, Ends

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.1

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• Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Past, Age, Ill

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.400

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• May the good God pardon all good men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Good Man, May

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

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• Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Joy, Temptation, Capacity

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.929, 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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• I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wish, Lilies, Trophies

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• Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Roots, Dew

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

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• You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  What Matters, Two, Smell

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Baby, Tired, Sleep

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

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• Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thinking, Shadow, Watches

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1844). “Poems”, p.164

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• Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Looks, Violet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.236

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• Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Men, Ease

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

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• I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Talking, Years

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.23, The Floating Press

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• I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Cheer, Children

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.54, The Floating Press

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• The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kindness, Desire, Would Be

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.17, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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