(1812-1889 / London / England)

poet Robert Browning
#35 on top 500 poets

Quotations

  • ''Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
    Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
    Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 586-8, Dramatis Personae (1864).
    152 person liked.
    		80 person did not like.
  • ''Inscribe all human effort with one word,
    Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 11, l. 1560 (1868-1869).
    91 person liked.
    		105 person did not like.
  • ''Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Death in the Desert, l. 59 (1864).
    88 person liked.
    		53 person did not like.
  • ''O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
    And all a wonder and a wild desire.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 1, l. 1391-2 (1868-1869).
    76 person liked.
    		59 person did not like.
  • ''Let us try.
    To-morrow, how you shall be glad for this!''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 19-20). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
    17 person liked.
    		10 person did not like.
  • ''Everyone soon or late comes round by Rome.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 5, l. 296 (1868-1869).
    12 person liked.
    		9 person did not like.
  • ''You called me, and I came home to your heart.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto (l. 171). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
    35 person liked.
    		6 person did not like.
  • ''Faultless to a fault.''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 9, l. 1177 (1868-1869).
    19 person liked.
    		6 person did not like.
  • ''Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
    Or what's a heaven for?''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Andrea del Sarto, l. 97-8, Men and Women, vol. 2 (1855).
    48 person liked.
    		9 person did not like.
  • ''There's a new tribunal now
    Higher than God's—the educated man's!''
    Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Ring and the Book, bk. 10, l. 1976-7 (1868-1869).
    23 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.

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The Lost Leader

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Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat---
Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
Lost all the others she lets us devote;
They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver,
So much was theirs who so little allowed:
How all our copper had gone for his service!

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