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
Graved inside of it, "Italy".
freedom seems
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
running morning autumn
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth
pride men firsts
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
lips praise deeper
Praise is deeper than the lips
genius talent ministers
Talent should minister to genius.
stars children moon
God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child; Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest; ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
death advice
Shun death, is my advice.
gains
And gain is gain, however small.
might gains want
I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.