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
mean doubt recognizing
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
fall eye laughing
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
war wells
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
love energy-of-life love-life
Love is the energy of life.
mind desire
As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
marriage persons findings
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
love anniversary valentines-day
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
years pay minutes
A minute of success pays for years of failure.
love life friendship
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
love life positive
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
best dream guess plants saw
Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him.
fast free
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
sweet reflection mad
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
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!