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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes (209 quotes)
 | “And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,— Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: The Dead Pan; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).. |
| “She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: Little Mattie, Stanza ii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). |
| “There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: A Vision of Poets (1844) |
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| “And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: A Vision of Poets (1844) |
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| “Guess now who holds thee?—Death, I said. But there The silver answer rang—Not Death, but Love.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) |
| “Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems! where The dancers will break footing, from the care Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) |
| “Hush, call no echo up in further proof Of desolation! there's a voice within That weeps... as thou must sing... alone, aloof.” ―Elizabeth Barrett Browning Source/Notes: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Born: March 6, 1806
Died: June 29, 1861 (aged 55)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet
Bio: Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.
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