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Robert Browning [1812-1889] English

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Victorian, Humour, History

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

Best, God, Love, Beauty, Strength, Age, Alone, Business, Failure, Faith, Fear, Great, Hope, Inspirational, Men, Mother's Day, Music, Nature, Poetry, Religion, Success, Sympathy, Time, Trust, Valentine's Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.	Beauty, Nature, Time, Trust	101
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.	Love, Mother's Day	102
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.	Best, Sympathy	103
My sun sets to rise again.		104
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?		105
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.	Best	106
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.	Love	107
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.	Music	108
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?	Inspirational	109
Love is energy of life.	Love	110
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.		111
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?	Alone, Men	112
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.	Beauty, Best, God	113
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.	God, Religion	114
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.		115
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.		116
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.	Valentine's Day	117
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.	God	118
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!	Great	119
A minute's success pays the failure of years.	Failure, Success	120
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.	Business	121
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.	Age	122
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!		123
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.		124
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.		125
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.		126
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.	Faith, Fear, Hope	201
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.		202
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.		203
Faultless to a fault.		204
Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!		205
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.		206
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.		207
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.		208
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.		209
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.		210
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.		211
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!		212
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.	Strength	213
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.		214
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.		215
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!		216
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.		217
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.	Strength	218
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.		219
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.		220
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?		221
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.		222
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?		223
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.		224
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.		225
God is the perfect poet.	Poetry	226
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.		301
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!		302
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.		303

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