Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a Victorian poet, was one of the pioneers of feminist thought. She also fought for the abolition of slavery and the Italian national cause. Her poem, The Cry of the Children, makes a strong appeal for child labor reforms. Besides being socially involved, she also found opportunity to find place for romance. Her glamorous liaison with poet Robert Browning inspired the Sonnets From the Portuguese, which is considered amongst her best-known works. Read the quotes below and discover the Elizabeth Barrett Browning who had a song in her heart.

Women
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Death
For 'tis not in mere death that men die most.

God
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Faith
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Devil
The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Love
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Patience
I worked with patience which means almost power.

Hope
Light tomorrow with today.

Death
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.

Love
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Genius
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Love
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Hope
My sun sets to raise again.

Work
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Genius
Since when was genius found respectable?

Attitude
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Love
Two human loves make one divine.

Experience
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Grief
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Beauty
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.