God smiles as He has always smiled; Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Robert Browning's childhood was passed in an unusually serene and happy home. In Development he tells how, at five years of age,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear, To give sign, we and they are his children, one… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
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 Image
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
