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
love sleep strive
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
stars rose afar
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
stars failure night
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
feelings east gone
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
pain past succeed
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
faith doubt stronger
You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.
time men faults
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
time fire snow
I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
inspiration watches graves
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
love law
All's love, yet all's law.
life lying men
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
life past past-life
Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
life
That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.
friendship world ends
What a thing friendship is - World without end.