"Alas, I have grieved so I am..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.
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“If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”
“If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.”
“My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.”
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“I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.”
“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
“No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?”