Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806-1861 / Female / English
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A Child’s Thought Of GodThey say that God lives very high; / But if you look above the pines / You cannot see our God; and why?
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Sonnet 24 - Let The World’s Sharpness, Like A Clasping KnifeXXIV / Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife, / Shut in upon itself and do no harm
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Sonnet 41 - I Thank All Who Have Loved Me In Their HeartsXLI / I thank all who have loved me in their hearts, / With thanks and love from mine. Deep thanks to all
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Bianca Among The NightingalesThe cypress stood up like a church / That night we felt our love would hold, / And saintly moonlight seemed to search
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Sonnet 33 - Yes, Call Me By My Pet-Name! Let Me HearXXXIII / Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear / The name I used to run at, when a child,
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The Best Thing In The WorldWhat’s the best thing in the world? / June-rose, by May-dew impearled; / Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
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To Flush, My DogYet, my pretty sportive friend, / Little is’t to such an end / That I praise thy rareness!
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Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The WaysXLIII / How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. / I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
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A Musical InstrumentWhat was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban,
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Sonnet 42 - ‘My Future Will Not Copy Fair My Past’XLII / ‘My future will not copy fair my past’— / I wrote that once; and thinking at my side
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