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.
splendor stung sudden
Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.
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
heaven spring
The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!
hath mind
This Quiet, all it hath a mind to do, doth.
brute deserve hated saw wicked
I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.
brown great greek horses smooth
Horses for ye, and brown Greek manuscripts, / And mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs.
dead life physician restored
That he was dead and then restored to life / By a Nazarene physician of his tribe.
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.
educated higher man tribunal
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's --The educated man s!
heart queen
This is a heart the Queen leant on.
chin game giants
The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, / Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay.
work pauses
No work begun shall ever pause for death.
god stars soul
God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.