Quote

Smiling the boy fell dead.

Robert Browning

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Smiling
Fell
Boys
Dead

More quotes by Robert Browning

Image
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
Robert Browning
Image
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.
Robert Browning
Image
Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
Robert Browning
Image
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Image
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.
Robert Browning
Image
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
Robert Browning
Image
Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
Robert Browning
Image
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
Robert Browning
Image
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
Robert Browning
Image
My care is for myself Myself am whole and sole reality.
Robert Browning
Image
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
Robert Browning
Image
In this world, who can do a thing, will not And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
Robert Browning
Image
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?
Robert Browning
Image
Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure.
Robert Browning
Image
Who knows most, doubts most.
Robert Browning
Image
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning
Image
Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
Robert Browning
Image
Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
Robert Browning
Image
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning
Image
Truth is within ourselves.
Robert Browning