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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
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Robert Barrett Browning
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What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
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Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
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The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
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But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear The rest may reason and welcome 'tis we musicians know.
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God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
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Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
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Lofty designs must close in like effects.
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Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.
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Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
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All's love, yet all's law.
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Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
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Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.
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And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!
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And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
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Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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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.
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Smiling the boy fell dead.
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