Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861
Born: 6 March 1806, Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England
Died: 29 June 1861, Fiorenza, Italy
Elizabeth Barrett sat in on her brother's tutoring sessions and read voraciously. That included the classic Greek and Latin authors, in the original languages. After reading Dante's Inferno she learned Hebrew so she could read the Old Testament. She had published her first volume of poetry by age twenty, and although confined by poor health, her reputation as a poet grew.In 1845 Robert Browning began courting her, they married privately the next year. Her father disowned her upon learning of the marriage, as he had all of his married children, and the Brownings decamped for Pisa for a year, then Fiorenza.
Biography from Wikipedia and the Academy of American Poets
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- A woman is always younger than a man at equal years. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - For tis not in mere death that men die most. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? permalink
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't. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - He lives most life whoever breathes most air. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - He said true things, but called them by wrong names. permalink
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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