Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#life #life

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#inspirational

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#humour #inspirational #inspirational

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #love

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real! ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #love

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#inspirational

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #unrequited-love #love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #love

I shall but love thee bitter after death ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #death

Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and taught the whole Of life in a new rhythm. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#life #love #rhythm #sonnet #death