Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.