English - Poet | March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Light tomorrow with today!
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
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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.
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.
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