| 101 Famous Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out of a man.
The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--
For the reed that grows never more again
As a reed with the reeds of the river.”
Music Quotes Source: A Musical Instrument
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“Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”
Autumn Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VII)
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“Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.”
Wishes Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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“Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so
Who art not missed by any that entreat.”
Religion Quotes Source: Comfort
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“Many a crown
Covers bald foreheads.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 754)
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“Capacity for joy
Admits temptation.”
Joy Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 703)
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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.”
Doves Quotes Source: My Doves
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“The music soars within the little lark,
And the lark soars.”
Larks Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 155)
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“The large white owl that with eye is blind,
That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,
Is carried away in a gust of wind.”
Owls Quotes Source: Isobel's Child (st. 19)
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“How joyously the young sea-mew
Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
Whereon our little bark had thrown
A little shade, the only one;
But shadows ever man pursue.”
Sea birds Quotes Source: The Sea-Mew
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“The place is all awave with trees,
Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,
Acacias having drunk the lees
Of the night-dew, fain headed,
And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem
The fittest foliage for a dream.”
Trees Quotes Source: An Island
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“Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Drama of Exile (sc. Farther on, etc., l. 992)
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“I was betrothed that day;
I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Lay of the Brown Rosary (pt. II)
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“First time he kiss'd me, he but only kiss'd
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
And ever since it grew more clean and white.”
Kisses Quotes Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (sonnet XXXVIII)
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“Deep violets, you liken to
The kindest eyes that look on you,
Without a thought disloyal.”
Violets Quotes Source: A Flower in a Letter
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“And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be
That this low breath is gone from me,
And gone my bier ye come to weep,
Let One, most loving of you all,
Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;
He giveth His beloved sleep."”
Tears Quotes Source: The Sleep (st. 9)
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“Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.”
Tears Quotes Source: Tears
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“And lilies are still lilies, pulled
By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.”
Lilies Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III)
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“. . . Purple lilies Dante blew
To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.”
Lilies Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VII)
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“And lilies white, prepared to touch
The whitest thought, nor soil it much,
Of dreamer turned to lover.”
Lilies Quotes Source: A Flower in a Letter
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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.”
Lilies Quotes Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
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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.”
Lilies Quotes Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
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“And a breastplate made of daisies,
Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,
Periwinkles interlaced
Drawn for belt about the waist;
While the brown bees, humming praises,
Shot their arrows round the chief.”
Daisies Quotes Source: Hector in the Garden
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“Women know
The way to rear up children (to be just);
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,
And stringing pretty words that make no sense,
And kissing full sense into empty words;
Which things are corals to cut life upon,
Although such trifles.”
Childhood Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I, l. 48)
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“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers,
And that cannot stop their tears.”
Childhood Quotes Source: The Cry of the Children
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