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.
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Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
My sun sets to raise again.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
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.
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.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Light tomorrow with today!
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
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