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
flower curiosity wickedness
The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
flower believe kissing
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...
flower rose noses
Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.
flower mad rose
It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
flower rose bud
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
summer flower june
And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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
best grow
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.