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Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
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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All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
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How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
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The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
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All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
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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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How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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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.
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Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
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You never know what life means till you die even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
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He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
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When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.
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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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Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
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I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
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The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.
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