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
trust time spring
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
art truth mouths
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
sweet reflection mad
how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet
inspiring nature autumn
Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
heart my-heart
Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'
love valentines-day fall
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
afterlife sun daylight
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
men feet temptation
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
time age crystals
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
sympathy fall autumn
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
forgiveness forgiving forget
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
angel bird desire
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
being-yourself being-single acceptance
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
sunrise sun sun-set
My sun sets to rise again.