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
men white evil
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
acceptance men blame
I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.
art truth mouths
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
friendship arms world
Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
travel adventure brave
Once more on my adventure brave and new.
patience faults prove
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
nature fool
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
hate love-is i-hate
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
rocks water joy
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
cousin my-cousin
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
educational men educated
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
ambition men doe
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
friendship joy news
What joy is better than news of friends?
best-effort haunting curse
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!