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 feet temptation
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
time age crystals
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
sympathy fall autumn
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
forgiveness forgiving forget
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
angel bird desire
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
being-yourself being-single acceptance
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
sunrise sun sun-set
My sun sets to rise again.
light may way
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
life giving world
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
mind great-minds knows
The great mind knows the power of gentleness.
god perfect creation
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
believe hands tolerate
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
golf three way
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.
soul earth
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.