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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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„She has seen the mystery hidUnder Egypt’s pyramid:By those eyelids pale and closeNow she knows what Rhamses knows.“
„The beautiful seems rightBy force of Beauty, and the feeble wrongBecause of weakness.“
„I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.“
„Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.“
„But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.“
„Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.“
„That he, in his developed manhood, stoodA little sunburnt by the glare of life;While I.. it seemed no sun had shone on me.“
„God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.“
„”Yes,” I answered you last night;”No,” this morning, Sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelight,Will not look the same by day.“
„Nay, if there’s room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne’s, — this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.“
„Since when was genius found respectable?“
„Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which, if cut deep down the middle,shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.“
„Guess now who holds thee?”—”Death,” I said. But thereThe silver answer rang—”Not Death, but Love.“
„Hush, call no echo up in further proofOf desolation! there’s a voice withinThat weeps… as thou must sing… alone, aloof.“
„Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall standHenceforward in thy shadow.“
„Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,Most gracious singer of high poems! whereThe dancers will break footing, from the careOf watching up thy pregnant lips for more.“
„And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows whenThe world was worthy of such men.“
„p>The heart which, like a staff, was oneFor mine to lean and rest upon,The strongest on the longest dayWith steadfast love, is caught away,And yet my days go on, go on.And cold before my summer’s done,And deaf in Nature’s general tune,And fallen too low for special fear,And here, with hope no longer here,While the tears drop, my days go on.
„By thunders of white silence.“
„p>Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown!No mortal grief deserves that crown.O supreme Love, chief misery,The sharp regalia are for TheeWhose days eternally go on!For us, — whatever’s undergone,Thou knowest, willest what is done,Grief may be joy misunderstood;Only the Good discerns the good.I trust Thee while my days go on.
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