Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Get work: Be sure it is better than what you work to get. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, 'I love her for… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
