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I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!
Poems (1844)
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
Poems (1844)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers—
And that cannot stop their tears.
Poems (1844)
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Poems (1844)
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
I worked with patience which means almost power.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Poems (1844)
Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends
The two-fold manner, in and outwardly,
And nothing in the world comes single to him.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
And each man stands with his face in the light
Of his own drawn sword,
Ready to do what a hero can.
Napoleon III in Italy (1860)
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
World's use is cold, world's love is vain,
World's cruelty is bitter bane;
But pain is not the fruit of pain.
Get leave to work
In this world,—'tis the best you get at all.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
Those tall flowering-reeds which stand,
In Arno like a sheaf of sceptres, left
By some remote dynasty of dead gods.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Hope, he called, belief
In God, — work, worship * * * therefore let us pray!
Aurora Leigh (1856)