Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born March 6, 1806, near Durham, Durham, Eng., died June 29, 1861, Florence. British poet. Overcoming ill health and the jealous objections of her tyrannical father, she eloped to Italy with Robert Browning and married him in 1846. Her greatest work, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), is a sequence of love poems written to her husband.
A good neighbour, even in this, Is fatal sometimes, cuts your morning up To mince-meat of the very smallest talk, Then helps to sugar her bohea at night With your reputation.
He, in his developed manhood, stood, A little sunburnt by the glare of life.
Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done, Then bring your gauges.
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, Which means whatever perfect thing she can, In life, in art, in science, but she fears To let the perfect action take her part And rest there: she must prove what she can do Before she does it,- prate of woman's rights, Of woman's mission, woman's function, till The men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is . . . to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!
Nay, if there's room for poets in this world A little overgrown (I think there is), Their sole work is to represent the age, Their age, not Charlemagne's,- this live, throbbing age. That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires, And spends more passion, more heroic heat, Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms, Than Roland with his knights.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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