Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ”

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ”

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. ”