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“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

“I would build a cloudy House
For my thoughts to live in;
When for earth too fancy-loose
And too low for Heaven!
Hush! I talk my dream aloud -
I build it bright to see, -
I build it on the moonlit cloud,
To which I looked with thee.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854

“And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest…”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Aurora Leigh

Source: Aurora Leigh

“I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“In this abundant earth no doubt
Is little room for things worn out:
Disdain them, break them, throw them by!
And if before the days grew rough
We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,
I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation! there's a voice within
That weeps... as thou must sing... alone, aloof.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

“Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. VI
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

“Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems! where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese

No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

“And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,
Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when
The world was worthy of such men.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A Vision of Poets (1844)

“Since when was genius found respectable?”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bk. VI, l. 275. <br class="br"> Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“By thunders of white silence.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hiram Powers's Greek Slave; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown!
No mortal grief deserves that crown.
O supreme Love, chief misery,
The sharp regalia are for Thee
Whose days eternally go on!

For us, — whatever's undergone,
Thou knowest, willest what is done,
Grief may be joy misunderstood;
Only the Good discerns the good.
I trust Thee while my days go on.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

St. 20-21.
De Profundis (1862)

“If I married him,
I would not dare to call my soul my own,
Which so he had bought and paid for: every thought
And every heart-beat down there in the bill,–
Not one found honestly deductible
From any use that pleased him!”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bk. II, l. 785-790. <br class="br"> Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)

“The face, which, duly as the sun,
Rose up for me with life begun,
To mark all bright hours of the day
With hourly love, is dimmed away —
And yet my days go on, go on.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

St. 1.
De Profundis (1862)

“Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Toll Slowly; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair;
And they heard the words it said,—
"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!"”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Dead Pan; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..