Best Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (10)

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"What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dr…" from A Musical Instrument · 16 ♥
"If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?" from Sonnet XXXV · 5 ♥
"God only, who made us rich, can make us poor." from Sonnet XXIV · 5 ♥
"Thou comest! all is said without a word." from Sonnet XXXI · 4 ♥
"Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." from Sonnet XXVI · 4 ♥
"I only thought Of lying quiet there where I was thrown Like sea-weed on the rocks, and suffer her To prick me to a pattern with her pin, Fibre from fibre, delicate leaf from leaf, And dry out from my…" from First Book · 2 ♥
"The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes." from Sonnet VI · 1 ♥
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." from Sonnet XLII · 1 ♥
"The beautiful seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness." from First Book
"Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow." from Sonnet VI
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