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When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

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
Liquor
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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!
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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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Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.
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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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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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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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There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!
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Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
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As is your sort of mind, So is your sort of search: You will find what you desire.
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The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
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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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