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Robert Browning

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About Robert Browning

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

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Topics: Age Love Strength Alone Art Beauty
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.