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
hands small-hands spirit
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
night world universe
Night conceals a world but reveals a universe.
work pauses
No work begun shall ever pause for death.
justice coats sticks
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
firsts puppets lasts
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.
kindness lasts thieves
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
adversity dizzy
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
lips praise deeper
Praise is deeper than the lips
friendship heart eye
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
dream action
I do what many dream of, all their lives
lasts hours strikes
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
pain voice light
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!
fate bears earth
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.
fate fulfilled
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.