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.
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!
lasts hours strikes
Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
peaceful age tonight
I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.
inspirational life positive
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
remakes made absolutes
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.