She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuou… - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all
(But that she had not lived enough to know)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.

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Birth Name: Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett

Alternative Names: Mrs. Browning • Elizabeth Barrett Barrett • Elizabeth Barrett-Browning • Elizaveta Barrett Brauning • Elisabeth Barrett Browning • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née Barrett

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A harmless life, she called a virtuous life,
A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .

Originators like Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

Lord Byron John Keats John Donne Alfred Tennyson Emily Dickinson

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Sweet, sweet, sweet, O Pan!
Piercing sweet by the river!
Blinding sweet, O great god Pan!
The sun on the hill forgot to die,
And the lilies reviv’d, and the dragon-fly
Came back to dream on the river.

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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