Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Beautiful, Memorable

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.25

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• Books succeed; and lives fail.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Succeed

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Hopeless, Hopelessness

  'Grief' (1844)

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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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• 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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• For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Suffering, Tears

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 8

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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 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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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Laughter, Eye

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

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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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• She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Egypt, Pyramids, Mystery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.507

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• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.146, Broadview Press

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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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• The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

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  Light, Calling, Way

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.418

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• Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Way, Praying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.349

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• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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• The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Business, Soul, Curls

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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