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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes about god

English Poet March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861

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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... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall..."
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering. Against my tremulous hands which loose the string. And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight. Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring. To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing, Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ... Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed. As if God's future thundered on my past. This said, I am thine -- and so... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed. And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light. Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed: And love is fire. And when I say at need. I love thee ... mark! ... I love thee -- in thy sight. I stand transfigured, glorified aright, With conscience of the new rays that proceed. Out of my face toward thine. There's nothing low. In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures. Who love God, God accepts while loving... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death."
And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem as Payne Knight did, that Homer's heroes measured twelve feet high. They were but men: -his Helen's hair turned grey like any plain Miss Smith's who wears a front; And Hector's infant whimpered at a plume as yours last Friday at a turkey-cock. All heroes are essential men, and all men possible heroes: every age, heroic in proportions, double faced, looks backward and... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame."
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "No man can be called friendless who has God and the..."
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with..."
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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