Earth’s crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God;
The next line reads “But only he who sees, takes off his shoes”, an allusion to Moses at the burning bush. Aurora Leigh is Barrett Browning’s verse novel about a woman poet, published in 1856 in nine books.
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed / The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee with the breath, / Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, / I shall but love thee better after death.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.