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You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.
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In you come with your cold music till I creep through every nerve.
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Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
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Truth that peeps
Over the glasses' edge when dinner's done.
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Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas,
Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno,
Wrote one song—and in my brain I sing it;
Drew one angel—borne, see, on my bosom!
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…I feel for the common chord again…
The C Major of this life.
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They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.
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'Twas a thief said the last kind word to Christ: Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.
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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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That's all we may expect of man, this side The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.
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Sky—what a scowl of cloud
Till, near and far,
Ray on ray split the shroud:
Splendid, a star!
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I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
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All service ranks the same with God,—
With God, whose puppets, best and worst,
Are we: there is no last nor first.
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'Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so.
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Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?
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He looked at her, as a lover can;
She looked at him, as one who awakes:
The past was a sleep, and her life began.
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We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.
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A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact
Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard,
And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since.
Give it me back! The thing's restorative
I'the touch and sight.
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When it was written, God and Robert Browning knew what it meant; now only God knows.
On Sordello
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God for King Charles! Pym and such carles
To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles!
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Oh child that didst despise thy life so much
When it seemed only thine to keep or lose,
How the fine ear felt fall the first low word
"Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"
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Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!
'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.
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All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.
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The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
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The best way to escape His ire Is, not to seem too happy.
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Each a God's germ, but doomed remain a germ
In unexpanded infancy
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The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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Robert Browning
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Born:
May 7, 1812
Died:
December 12, 1889
(aged 77)
Bio:
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
Known for:
My Last Duchess
Porphyria's Lover
Andrea del Sarto
The Laboratory
The Ring and the Book
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