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Robert Browning Quotes

1812–1889 England

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

England
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Also known as: Browning, Robert

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190 quotes

In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.

Pippa Passes (1841)

God's in His Heaven —
All's right with the world!

Pippa Passes (1841)

What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Was I, the world arraigned,
Were they, my soul disdained,
Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last!

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Oh, never star
Was lost here, but it rose afar!
Look East, where whole new thousands are!
In Vishnu-land what Avatar?

Waring (1842)

The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!

A Death in the Desert (1864)

Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.

Men and Women (1855)

What Youth deemed crystal,
Age finds out was dew.

Jochanan Hakkadosh (1883)

All we have gained then by our unbelief
Is a life of doubt diversified by faith,
For one of faith diversified by doubt;
We called the chessboard white,— we call it black.

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear (believe the aged friend),
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

A Death in the Desert (1864)

Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.

Just my vengeance complete,
The man sprang to his feet,
Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!
So, I was afraid!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Fear Death? – to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face.

Each a God's germ, but doomed remain a germ
In unexpanded infancy

Sordello (1840)

Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do their best to climb, and get to him.

As if true pride
Were not also humble!

Round and round, like a dance of snow
In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go
Floating the women faded for ages,
Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.