Eye Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12 Eye quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s twelve lines treat the eye as a vessel for love and sorrow. Her lyrical voice lends a timeless quality to each observation.

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Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

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Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.

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Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

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Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry.

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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away…

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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

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And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep…

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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough…

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There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter…

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Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto.…

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What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its…

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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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