The Cry of the Children Quotes

“We look up for God, but tears have made us blind.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children

“They are weeping in the playtime of the others,
In the country of the free.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children

“up in Heaven,
Dark, wheel-like, turning clouds are all we find!
Do not mock us; grief has made us unbelieving--
We look up for God, but tears have made us blind.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Cry of the Children