When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIf we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningI tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
Elizabeth Barrett Browning