"I wish I were the lily's leaf To……" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form."
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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185 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has 185 quotes on this site.
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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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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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My sun sets to raise again.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since,…
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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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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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
— George Washington
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The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive…
— J. G. Holland
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
— Richard Sibbes
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What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk…
— John Bunyan
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Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.
— Giacomo Casanova
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the…
— Lydia M. Child
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I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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