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Robert Browning
English
Poet
About the author
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Music
#Solitude
My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Sun
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Time
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Now
#England
#April
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Man
#Ambition
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Heaven
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Years
#Old
#Girls
#Kiss
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Right
#Clouds
#Wrong
#Fight
#Sleep
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Old
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Youth
#Age
#Dew
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Wonder
#Soul
#Kissing
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Thought
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
#Being
#Man
#Choice
#Business
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Man
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Open
#Eyes
#Ecstasy
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Rest
#Shakespeare
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Day
#Youth
#Man
#Age
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#First
#Song
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
#Earth
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
Faultless to a fault.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Fault
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Purpose
#Eyes
#Nerves
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Success
#Years
#Failure
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Man
#Heaven
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Sympathy
#Autumn
Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Energy
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Words
#Men
#Deeds
God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#God
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Old
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
#Heart
#Man
#Soul
#Senses
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
#Strength
#Soul
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Want
#God
#End
#Fight
#Privacy
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Time
#End
#Trust
#Nature
#Beauty
#Laws
#Spring
#Autumn
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#God
#Beauty
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning,
English
Poet
#Men
#Labor
#Dogs
#Birds
#Anxiety