What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant co…
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.