Quote

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

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
Knew
Smiling
Littles
Advanced
Little
Followed
Firsts
Street
Pipers
First
Smile
Piper
Children
Quiet
Stepped
Streets
Slept
Magic
Pipe

More quotes by Robert Browning

Image
I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning
Image
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
Robert Browning
Image
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
Robert Browning
Image
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.
Robert Browning
Image
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
Robert Browning
Image
God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
Robert Browning
Image
O never star Was lost here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time I press God's lamp Close to my breast its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.
Robert Browning
Image
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
Robert Browning
Image
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
Robert Browning
Image
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Robert Browning
Image
Imperfection means perfection hid.
Robert Browning
Image
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning
Image
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.
Robert Browning
Image
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
Robert Browning
Image
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
Image
Who knows most, doubts most entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
Robert Browning
Image
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Robert Browning
Image
Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.
Robert Browning
Image
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
Robert Browning
Image
There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.
Robert Browning