Beloved, is it thou
Or I, who makes me sad?
(Sonnet 30 - I See Thine Image Through My Tears To-night)
More Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
I taught them, no doubt,That a country's a thing men should die for at need.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:
And love is fire.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet prodigal inward joy.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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