Robert Browning Playwright

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. religion

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. love & Valentine's Day

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. beauty & trust

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. age

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character. faith, fear & hope

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. love

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. business

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on. strength

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. art

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. beauty

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. age

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. age & death

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. best & sympathy

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least. art

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Mother's Day

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. alone

A minute's success pays the failure of years. failure & success

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. strength

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. music

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? alone

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. best

God is the perfect poet. poetry