Robert Browning on Women
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“Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.”
“He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed, Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.”
“Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what’s become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.”
“ ... the mark God sets on woman, signifying so She should—shall peradventure—be divine.”
“The woman yonder, there's no use of life But just to obtain her! heap earth's woes in one And bear them—make a pile of all earth's joys And spurn them, as they help or help not this; Only, obtain her!”