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 armor slave
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
pain voice light
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
men world cost
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.
adversity dizzy
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
mean perfection imperfection
Imperfection means perfection hid.
life dream world
The world and life's too big to pass for a dream
dream action
I do what many dream of, all their lives
life dream insane
At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.
responsibility aspiration
Our aspirations are our responsibilities.
heaven earth
Earth is crammed with heavens.
morning heaven world
In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
relationship heart sunshine
If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.
perfection faults
Faultless to a fault.
love ignorance loss
For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.