Pen and Ink Love Greeting Card
Although she won’t know this until it’s published, I have combined a delightful article from Pippa Rathborne’s Last Post blog about love and the Brownings with some of my Pen and Ink products from Zazzle, which include Elizabeth Browning’s famous sonnet.
Pippa writes:
Feeling weary, stale and unprofitable, I’d vowed to give up blogging for a while, but the always happy thought of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning has spawned this self-indulgence.
As I mentioned before, I was named after Browning’s Pippa Passes, and immersed by my mother in the love story of Robert and Elizabeth while I was growing up, Flush the spaniel and all. For a long time, as happens with history’s celebrities, their romantic personae overshadowed the value of their individual work.
If ever there was one, theirs appeared to be a marriage of true minds. It is painful to consider the possibility that in reality he had a restricting effect on her writing, specifically on her social and political freedom of thought. Robert had trouble stopping Elizabeth from dressing their only child, their son Pen, as a girl. Ignore, ignore, forget, forget, facts are only the dreary letter, not the spirit of truth.
And, anyway, Pen grew up filial, amiable and cheerful, a lover of Italy, a restorer of a palazzo, a painter and a bon vivant. He did not inherit his parents’ intellectual genius or determination, but he did not…
Continue reading: “How do I love thee?” collateral « LAST POST.
Pen and Ink Love Round Sticker
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43, Sonnets from the Portuguese, pub. 1850
Pen and Ink Love 3 Ring Binder
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Take care and keep laughing!
Thank you, Sarah…
Love both image and Pippa’s words. Enjoy the day. Janet:)
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Glad to please you in both ways! Happy weekend!
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Beautiful combination. I’ve always loved that sonnet even quoted it in my most recent book…Have a great Valentine’s
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The Cupcakes one? Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Lovely, Happy Valentines Day
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Thank you, Mary. You too!
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A wonderful piece from E.B.B.to choose today Sarah.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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It never fails, does it. Happy Valentine Hugs to you, David.
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Wonderful. Happy Valentine’s Day:)
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Thanks, Gigi. Happy day for you and yours!
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