Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Loved Quotes

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But since he had
The genuis to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I loved you yesterday.. I love you to-day.. I shall love you to-morrow. Every day I am yours.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He has nursed me, comforted me, loved me — the words fail me (as he never did) when I try to describe what he has been and is to me. If marriage was a little oftener what I have found it, how different the world would be, and how much happier, women!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning