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 wings soul
Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!
happiness happy
Make us happy and you make us good.
lasts hours strikes
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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.
genius talent ministers
Talent should minister to genius.
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.
stars children moon
God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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.