Source: Poetical works
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Famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
“Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.”
Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“So mothers have God's license to be missed.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”
Source: Poetical works
“The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.”
Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.”
Source: Browning: Poems
“Of writing many books there is no end.”
Source: Aurora Leigh
Source: The Poetical Works of
“We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett
“Never say No when the world says Aye.”
Source: Aurora Leigh
“The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.”
Source: Poetical works
“Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.”
Source: Poetical works
“We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.”
Source: Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning
“May the good God pardon all good men.”
Source: The Poetical Works of
“If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: Poetical works
“Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Poems: From the last London ed., corrected by the author
Source: Poems