Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvud gold, the wailers heap! / O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! / God strikes a silence through you all, / And giveth his beloved, sleep. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning