I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
(Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways)
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For I, a woman, have only knownHow the heart melts and the tears run down.
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This is the poet and his poetry.
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Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward,
Grinding life down from its mark;
And the children's souls, which God is calling sunward,
Spin on blindly in the dark.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
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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 thats 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
I marvelled, my Beloved, when I read
Thy thought so in the letter.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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