Dreams Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13 Dreams quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s thirteen verses on dreams capture a tender, romantic yearning. Her lyrical cadence makes each line feel like a whispered confession about the heart’s secret wishes.

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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

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“God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.”

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“Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

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Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave…

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I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by…

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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…

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I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven!…

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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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Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the…

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“I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in a gracious…

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“O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! — here's a cause…

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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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