I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
(Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways)
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Do not mock us; grief has made us unbelieving-We look up for God, but tears have made us blind.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name Piled high, packed large, where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, 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. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read My books
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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