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
broken-heart perfect heaven
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
lying heart brain
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.
beauty attitude simple
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
ambition comfort
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
music solitude musical
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
freedom seems
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
godly perfect poetry
God is the perfect poet.
kissing romantic-love teenage-love
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
love children men
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
courage fall sleep
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
life strength soul
I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
dream memories prayer
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.
inspirational success softball
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
hurt truth
Truth never hurts the teller.