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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Dream, Miracle

Light tomorrow with today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Inspirational, Life, Change
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Life, Love Life
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36

He who breathes deepest lives most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Health, Inspire

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Men

The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Life, Strong

I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Queens, Wall
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Death, Knowledge
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.231

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Reality, Air
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.88

Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll- Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence, with thy soul.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Stars, Flower
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.146

Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Thee, Worthy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.102

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Song, Sweet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Should, Thee
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.261

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Love You, Men
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1170, Delphi Classics

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

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