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The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light, Calling, Way
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.418

A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dew, Green, Might
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.426

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Grief, Hopeless, Hopelessness
'Grief' (1844)

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Song, Angel, Thinking
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

Books succeed; and lives fail.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Reading, Succeed
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.450

They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Brother, Dark
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wall, Talking, Years
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.23, The Floating Press

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