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
chance focused guys maybe ready start
I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
decided deter ears extra maybe pair
I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.
winning heaven may
Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
mean may fancy
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
may lions ass
A lion may die of an ass's kick.
art may likes
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
ears may musician
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
soul body may
Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
light may way
There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
dead life physician restored
That he was dead and then restored to life / By a Nazarene physician of his tribe.
brute deserve hated saw wicked
I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.
bear darkness fare glad heroes minute pay peers taste
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers / The heroes of old, / Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears / Of pain, darkness and cold.
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.