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
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.
love might hated
Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!
stars dark sea
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.
life live-life mere
How good is life, the mere living!
night lasts faster
Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
life white doubt
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
firsts puppets lasts
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
joy thank-god desire
Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.