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"Autumn wins you best by this its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Paracelsus, pt. 1, l. 25-6 (1835). |
"Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Parting at Morning (l. 1-4). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven—
All's right with the world!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Pippa Passes, pt. 1, "Morning," (1841).
Pippa's song. |
"And all night long we have not stirred,
And yet God has not said a word!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Porphyria's Lover (l. 59-60). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold."
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Prospice (l. 17-20). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again,
And with God be the rest!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Prospice (l. 27-28). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
I am nearing the place,
The power of the night, the press of the storm,
The post of the foe;
Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form,
Yet the strong man must go:"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Prospice (l. 1-8). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Then, welcome each rebuff
That turns earth's smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Rabbi Ben Ezra (l. 31-33). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Look not thou down but up!"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Rabbi Ben Ezra (l. 175). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:"
Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Rabbi Ben Ezra (l. 1-3). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin. |
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