Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed.
But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
“A Court Lady,” st. 20 (1859)
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
“Aurora Leigh” (1857)
I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on!
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost,
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
I thank Thee while my days go on.
‘Yes,’ I answered you last night;
‘No,’ this morning, sir, I say.
Colors seen by candle-light,
Will not look the same by day.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
“The Lady’s ‘Yes'”, st. 1 (1844)
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in it.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
Aurora Leigh, Bk. II (1856)
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell: by reiteration chiefly.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
Aurora Leigh, Bk. VI (1857)
Life, struck sharp on death,
Makes awful lightning.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
Aurora Leigh, Book 1, ll. 210–211 (1856)
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet
Sonnets from the Portuguese, #43 (1850)
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And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?