Do not mock us; grief has made us unbelieving-
We look up for God, but tears have made us blind.
(The Cry Of The Children)
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But thou art not suchA lover, my Beloved!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To love me also in silence with thy soul.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ere I answered he was gone,
And none was left to love in all the world.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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