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
blessing city facilities golfers hopefully match park played
This may be a blessing for some courses. The attrition of the facilities hopefully will match the attrition of the population. The golfers that played at City Park or Eastover will want to play golf. So they will have to go to other facilities.
goes greatest keeping life pleasure
Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; No keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life
heart queen
This is a heart the Queen leant on.
dared major sleep
I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep
fell lied rough truth
Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth
believe kiss sure
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...
dead life physician restored
That he was dead and then restored to life / By a Nazarene physician of his tribe.
chin game giants
The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay.
exceed heaven reach
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
fast free
So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.
england sings
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough / In England - now!
begins fight within worth
When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something
years pay minutes
A minute of success pays for years of failure.
golf three way
There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.