Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Browningwas an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 May 1812
flower curiosity wickedness
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
play two world
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
mean may fancy
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
frustration men sight
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
truth truth-is
Truth is within ourselves.
adventure two preparation
Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.
love yield joy
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.
dog pain cat
I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as pain goes, than have a single dog or cat tortured to death on the pretense of sparing me a twinge or two.
bird good-times stifling
He guides me and the bird. In His good time!
lying past deceit
Since there my past life lies, why alter it?
spring heaven world
God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.
may lions ass
A lion may die of an ass's kick.
soul flesh helping
All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
pain
Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.