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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
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London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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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.
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Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.
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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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A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.
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Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!
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It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.
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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
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Most progress is most failure.
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Sorrow, the heart must bear, Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. Many a circumstance, at least, Touches the very breast. For those Whom any sent away,--he knows: And in the live man's stead, Armor and ashes reach The house of each.
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Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
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Strike when thou wilt, the hour of rest, but let my last days be my best.
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Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.
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