In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I find earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools -… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“XXIV. And more than that - a furlong on - why, there! What bad use was that engine for, that wheel, Or… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the workings of… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused,… — Robert Browning Copy Share
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.” — Robert Browning Copy Share
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. — Robert Browning Copy Share
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share
“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and… — Robert Browning Copy Share
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning Copy Share
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! — Robert Browning Copy Share
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning Copy Share
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning Copy Share
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are… — Robert Browning Copy Share
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 Copy Share
