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Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
True
Best
Imperial
Sincerity
Plain
Acceptance

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The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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Good to forgive, Best to forget.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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Never the time and the place And the loved one all together.
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe!
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The past is gained, secure, and on record.
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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell.
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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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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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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.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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All's love, yet all's law.
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