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"Open my heart and you will see,
Graved inside of it, "Italy.""
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. De Gustibus, st. 2 (1855).
after Mary Tudor (Mary I), who is reported to have said, "When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart." |
"He's Judas to a tittle, that man is!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 25). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"The world and life's too big to pass for a dream,"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 252). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
Flower o' the quince,
I let Lisa go, and what good in life since?"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 55-57). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Flower o' the clove,
All the Latin I construe is "amo," I love!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 111-112). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Your business is not to catch men with show,
With homage to the perishable clay,
But lift them over it, ignore it all,
Make them forget there's such a thing as flesh.
Your business is to paint the souls of men—"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 180-184). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"We're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted—better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that;
God uses us to help each other so,"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Fra Lippo Lippi (l. 301-306). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Praise is deeper than the lips:"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Hervé Riel (l. 107). . .
The Poems; Vol. 2 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Home Thoughts from Abroad (l. 1-2). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Home Thoughts, From Abroad, st. 2, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845). |
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