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This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples. - Aurora Leigh (bk. II) [Roses] You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest. - Aurora Leigh (bk. II) [Tulips] You forget too much That every creature, female as the male, Stands single in responsible act and thought, As also in birth and death. - Aurora Leigh (bk. II, l. 472) [Women] Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. - Aurora Leigh (bk. II, l. 732) [Blushes] And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. - Aurora Leigh (bk. III) [Flowers : Lilies] Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray! - Aurora Leigh (bk. III) [Prayer] The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. - Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 155) [Larks] Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. - Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 164) [Work] I worked with patience which means almost power. - Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 205) [Patience] There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter of this world. - Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 870) [Crime] He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich. It pleases him t stoop for buttercups. - Aurora Leigh (bk. IV) [Buttercups] I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom. - Aurora Leigh (bk. IV) [Love] What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil. - Aurora Leigh (bk. IV, l. 1,150) [Progress] But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not. - Aurora Leigh (bk. IX) [Love] Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done. - Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 78) [Work] In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. - Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 981) [World] A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VI) [Acacia] 'Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house, My cousin Romney gathered with his hand On all my birthdays, for me. save the last; And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough, For roses to stay after. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VI) [Roses] You take a pink, You dig about its roots and water it, And so improve it to a garden-pink, But will not change it to a heliotrope. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VI) [Pinks] Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; And only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VII) [Autumn] . . . Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VII) [Lilies] "There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VII), probably referring to Emerson's "Epigram to History", "There is no great and no small." [Poets] Those tall flowering-reeds which stand, In Arno like a sheaf of sceptres, left By some remote dynasty of dead gods. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VII) [Reeds] Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII) [Ivy] Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. - Aurora Leigh (bk. VIII, l. 784) [Work] Displaying page 4 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6
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