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
devil way fiddle
The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
tree lasts three
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
men slave armour
A man in armour is his armour's slave.
humble pride ifs
As if true pride Were not also humble!
consent
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.
infinite finite poetry-is
All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.
night world universe
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
beloved
Escape me? Never, beloved! While I am I, and you are you.
love-you sunshine blessing
Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.
goodbye saying-goodbye love-is
Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.
soul
Thought is the soul of act.
truth truth-is strikes
Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
children blow blood
Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
pain women pretty-woman
A pretty woman's worth some pains to see, Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.