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
queens heart fortune
Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"
girl heart kissing
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.
wise earth reason
I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
genius
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
song play survival
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!
lying teaching rome
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.
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 ...
art may likes
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.
death mean dying
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
spring angel heaven
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
gains
And gain is gain, however small.
apples eden curiosity
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
men white evil
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
acceptance men blame
I.. know what I do, and am unmoved by men's blame, or their praise either.