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

“How long, they say, how long, O cruel nation,
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's heart,---
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation,
And tread onward to your throne amid the mart?
Our blood splashes upward, O our tyrants,
And your purple shews your path;
But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!”
― 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