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Elizabeth Barrett Browning [1806-1861] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Christian, Romanticism, Sonnet, Spasmodic, Victorian

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.

Love, Anniversary, Beauty, Death, Dreams, Faith, Inspirational, Men, Power

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Light tomorrow with today!	Inspirational	101
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.	Anniversary	102
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.	Love	103
Who so loves believes the impossible.	Love	104
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.		105
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.	Dreams	106
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.		107
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!		108
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.	Death	109
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.		110
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.		111
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.		112
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?		113
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.		114
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.		115
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.		116
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.		117
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.		118
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.		119
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.	Beauty	120
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.	Faith	121
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.		122
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?	Power	123
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.		124
For tis not in mere death that men die most.	Men	125
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.'		126
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.		201
Since when was genius found respectable?		202
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.		203

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