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
god art art-love
God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.
art practice perfection
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
art heaven sabbath
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
art may likes
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
art truth mouths
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
art wedding-anniversary found
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
begins fight within worth
When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something
lamp sin
And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.
blot insult lost record sorrow soul task wrong
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, / One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, / One more devil's-triumph and sorrow for angels, / One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
sort
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire.
england sings
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough / In England - now!
patience proves
The are times when patience proves at fault.
again begin dry eyes laugh
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And, baffled, get up and begin again