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
apples eden curiosity
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.
gains
And gain is gain, however small.
spring angel heaven
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.
time age crystals
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
time tonight world
Who knows but the world may end tonight
struggle men half
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
stills laughed
Each life unfulfilled, you see; It hangs still, patchy and scrappy: We have not sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, despaired,—been happy.
religion doubt atheism
Who knows most, doubts most.
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!
pain
Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.
pain joy three
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
pain fall cost
Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!
horse boots saddles
Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
dream angel past
Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!