Earth Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13 Earth quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Browning’s poetic heart finds solace in the natural world, and these short selections reveal her tender, rhythmic reverence for the land that nurtures us.

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Earth's crammed with Heaven.

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“Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake...

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Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"…

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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

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O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife,…

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Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead…

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In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if…

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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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Through heaven and earth God's will moves freely, and I follow it, As color follows light. He overflows The firmamental walls with…

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Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The…

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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…

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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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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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