(1812-1889 / London / England)

poet Robert Browning
#40 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).
    145 person liked.
    		77 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).
    88 person liked.
    		101 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).
    84 person liked.
    		51 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).
    71 person liked.
    		57 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.).
    33 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).
    47 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).
    22 person liked.
    		5 person did not like.

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Love Among The Ruins

I.

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro' the twilight, stray or stop
As they crop---
Was the site once of a city great and gay,

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