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Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Grief

1806–1861 England

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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Poems (1844)

Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not
More grief than ye can weep for. That is well—
That is light grieving!

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,
The holy name of Grief—holy herein,
That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.