Elizabeth B. Browning

1806 - 1861 *

a great English poet whose most famous works are love poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was more famous than her husband, Robert Browning, during their lifetimes.

Educated at home, Browning's literary career developed slowly. Her father reognised that she showed great promise. She eloped with Robert Browning in 1846 and traveled to Italy, where she championed the cause of unity and independance. Many of her poems during this period and throughout the rest of her life were deeply political.

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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time! -- A Vision of Poets.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And Chaucer, with his infantine
Familiar clasp of things divine. -- A Vision of Poets.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death. -- A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. -- Toll slowly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness,
Round our restlessness His rest. -- Rhyme of the Duchess.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle
Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. -- Lady Geraldine's Courtship. xli.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave. -- Crowned and buried. xxvii.

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Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man. -- To George Sand. A Desire.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By thunders of white silence. -- Hiram Powers's Greek Slave.

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