Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Quotes about love

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was English poet, author. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 176 quotes44 likes

“The heart which, like a staff, was one
For mine to lean and rest upon,
The strongest on the longest day
With steadfast love, is caught away,
And yet my days go on, go on.

And cold before my summer's done,
And deaf in Nature's general tune,
And fallen too low for special fear,
And here, with hope no longer here,
While the tears drop, my days go on.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

St. 3 - 4.
De Profundis (1862)

“But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Crowned and Buried, xxvii reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The cypress stood up like a church
That night we felt our love would hold,
And saintly moonlight seemed to search
And wash the whole world clean as gold;
The olives crystallized the vales'
Broad slopes until the hills grew strong:
The fireflies and the nightingales
Throbbed each to either, flame and song.
The nightingales, the nightingales.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 1 (1862).