The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... ''curse that stool'' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.
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For I, a woman, have only knownHow the heart melts and the tears run down.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He reigns below, He reigns alone,
And, having life in love forgone
Beneath the crown of sovran thorns,
He reigns the Jealous God.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I prated of liberty, rights, and about
The tyrant cast out.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In the pleasant orchard closes, God bless all our gains', say we But May God bless all our losses' Better suits with our degree.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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