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
hope men progress
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
flower rose noses
Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.
hate love-is i-hate
When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.
death mean dying
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
best-effort haunting curse
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
rocks water joy
Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
friendship joy news
What joy is better than news of friends?
ambition men doe
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
flower rose bud
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
patience faults prove
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
nature fool
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.
time
Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
music men jazz-and-life
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music
mad evil being-me
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.