Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine […]

WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn! Let the cloud Ebb audibly along the mountain-wind, Then break against the rock, and show behind The […]

For ever, since my childish looks Could rest on Nature’s pictured books; For ever, since my childish tongue Could name […]

Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm In this close hand […]

And yet, because thou overcomest so, Because thou art more noble and like a king, Thou canst prevail against my […]

IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know Concentred in one heart their gentleness, That still grew gentler till its pulse […]

‘My future will not copy fair my past’- I wrote that once; and thinking at my side My ministering life-angel […]

Said a people to a poet -” Go out from among us straightway! While we are thinking earthly things, thou […]

I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air […]

I THINK we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God’s. Had we no hope Indeed beyond […]

TRUE genius, but true woman! dost deny The woman’s nature with a manly scorn And break away the gauds and […]

MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven’s. Be fully done Supernal Will! I would […]

WE overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination (given us to bring down The choirs of singing angels overshone […]

XLI I thank all who have loved me in their hearts, With thanks and love from mine. Deep thanks to […]

THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well That […]