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
splendour
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
true-love waiting forever
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
love birthday anniversary
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
life fate trying
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
god not-giving-up fighting
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
trust time spring
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
art truth mouths
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
sweet reflection mad
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
inspiring nature autumn
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
heart my-heart
Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'
love valentines-day fall
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
afterlife sun daylight
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
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.