Elizabeth Barrett

Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth barrett, elizabeth and/or barrett:

    “‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
    there,
    The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor’s son to marry.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
    With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
    Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
    I shall but love thee better after death.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)