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 height gods-will
Other heights in other lives, God willing.
life two scar
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
blue hatred heaven
Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.
england april-and-spring april
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
learning grieving funeral
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
inspirational life positive
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
wise book mean
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!
song blow soul
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
clouds mad earth
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched;
gymnastics break endeavor
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
rome late rounds
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
stars heaven bread
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
love energy-of-life self-improvement
Love is energy of life.
Graved inside of it, "Italy".