World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
More Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
I taught them, no doubt,That a country's a thing men should die for at need.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Atheists are as dull,
Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Then, drawing breath,
She struggled for her ordinary calm
And missed it rather, told me not to shrink,
As if she had told me not to lie or swear, --
`She loved my father, and would love me too
As long as I deserved it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Knowledge by suffering entereth And Life is perfected by Death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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