Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

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On God:

God's in his heaven:
All's right with the world.

Pippa Passes

On Joy:

Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small.

On Life:

Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Paracelsus

That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.

A Death in the Desert

On Lie:

The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Count Gismond

On Life:

I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

In a Balcony

The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Cleon

On Sadness:

How sad and bad and mad it was
But then, how it was sweet!

Confessions

On Objective:

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

On Woman:

There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.

A Blot in the 'Scutcheon
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