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Children Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10 Children quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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When you think of childhood through the eyes of a Victorian poet, you get a tender mix of wonder and moral nuance. This modest set captures Browning’s lyrical affection for young minds, offering a gentle entry point for anyone curious about her softer side.

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“...But the child's sob in silence curses deeper / Than the strong man in his wrath.”

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

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As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group…

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For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers…

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A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich;…

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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…

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I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put…

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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There…

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I should not dare to call my soul my own.

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Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…

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“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside…

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Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…

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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

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The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you…

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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…

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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

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