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
blinding fire god good hail send shall unless
Unless God send his hail / Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow, / In some time, his good time, I shall arrive.
hath mind
This Quiet, all it hath a mind to do, doth.
lamp sin
And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.
brute deserve hated saw wicked
I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.
decided deter ears extra maybe pair
I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.
bride corpse leave lost though tied
Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse like bride
learning grieving funeral
I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!
afterlife sun daylight
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
best-effort haunting curse
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
learning earth grows
Why stay on the earth except to grow.
lasts hours strikes
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
nymphs lakes swim
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
peaceful age tonight
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
time age crystals
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.