Elizabeth Barrett Browning Tears Quotations

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.