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Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.— filed under Fellowship With Christ And God
I praise Thee while my days go on; I love Thee while my days go on! Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost, With emptied arms and treasure lost, I thank Thee while my days go on.— filed under Cheerfulness
In your patience ye are strong.— filed under Patience
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. And I said in underbreath All our life is mixed with death, - And who knoweth which is best? And I smiled to think God's greatness Flowed around our incompleteness, - Round our restlessness, His rest.— filed under Resignation
That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose, Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.— filed under Rest
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.— filed under Sorrow
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. - -— filed under Trust In God
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delvéd gold, the wailer's heap ! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep."— filed under Death