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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(Encyclopedia) Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806–61, English poet, b. Durham. A delicate and precocious child, she spent a great part of her early life in a state of semi-invalidism. She read…Barrett, Elizabeth
(Encyclopedia) Barrett, Elizabeth: see Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.Horne, Richard Henry
(Encyclopedia) Horne, Richard Henry, or Richard Hengist Horne, 1802–84, English author. His chief work was the allegorical poem Orion (1843). A New Spirit of the Age (1844), written with Elizabeth…Bion
(Encyclopedia) BionBionbīˈən [key], fl. 2d cent.? b.c., Greek bucolic poet, an imitator of Theocritus, b. Phlossa, near Smyrna. Only fragments of his work survive. The Lament for Adonis, attributed…Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Name at birth: Elizabeth BarrettElizabeth Barrett Browning was a beloved English poet of the 19th century, famous for her love poems and for her marriage to poet Robert Browning. She wrote the line…Browning, Robert
(Encyclopedia) Browning, Robert, 1812–89, English poet. His remarkably broad and sound education was primarily the work of his artistic and scholarly parents—in particular his father, a London bank…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floorThou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems! where The dancers will break footing, from the care Of watching up…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeedYet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light Leaps in the flame from…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And therefore if to love can be desert
And therefore if to love can be desertAnd therefore if to love can be desert, I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale As these you see, and trembling knees that fail To bear the burden of a…Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wearAccuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear Too calm and sad a face in front of thine; For we two look two ways, and cannot shine With the same sunlight…