Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

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

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

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.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

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

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.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

Light tomorrow with today!