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
children gay littles
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
angel men brutes
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
friendship heart eye
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
wise men fool
One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.
fate bears earth
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
fate fulfilled
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.
snow long world
I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.
mother men wife
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
atheism absurd wells
'Tis well averred, A scientific faith's absurd.
design lofty effects
Lofty designs must close in like effects.
past records secure
The past is gained, secure, and on record.
writing belief conviction
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.
book people feelings
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.
judging people might
I judge people by what they might be, - not are, nor will be.