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
broken-heart perfect heaven
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
forgiveness forgiving forget
Good to forgive, Best to forget.
sympathy fall autumn
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
inspirational life motivational
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
clouds mad earth
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched;
evening
To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.
dream memories prayer
Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.
gymnastics break endeavor
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
true-love waiting forever
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
freedom seems
So free we seem, so fettered we are!
ambition comfort
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
marriage persons findings
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
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.
sunrise sun sun-set
My sun sets to rise again.