Gay words and jests may make us smile,
When Sorrow is asleep;
But other things must make us smile,
When Sorrow bids us weep!
(The Autumn)
More Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
There is no God,' the foolish saith, But none, 'There is no sorrow.' And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised And lips say, 'God be pitiful,' Who ne'er said, 'God be praised.'Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But what have nightingales to do
In gloomy England, called the free.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
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
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