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
faith fear character
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
girl kissing romantic-love
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
june rose bounds
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
eye kissing romantic-love
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
god track justice
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
failure succeed lows
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.
birthday dream age
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
wise song thinking
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
life lying past
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
success men deeds-done
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
hope men progress
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
poverty world littles
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
pain passion heart
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
time men years
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.