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Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

Robert Browning

Giving, Perfect, Soul

Robert Browning, “Now!”

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Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world

Robert Browning

Song, Morning, Spring

Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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

Robert Browning

Life, Men, White

'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1235

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Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.

Robert Browning

Romantic, Believe, Flower

'In a Gondola' (1842) l. 49

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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Robert Browning

Best Effort, Haunting, Curse

Robert Browning (1989). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book”

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Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

Robert Browning

Flower, Rose, Noses

'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

Robert Browning

Eden, Apples, Curiosity

Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.741, Pearson Education

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Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

Robert Browning

Heaven, World, Earth

Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

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Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Robert Browning

Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais): "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy.'"

Robert Browning

Queens, Heart, Lost

'De Gustibus' (1855) pt. 2, l. 39

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All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

Robert Browning

Soul, Flesh, Helping

Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

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There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

Robert Browning

Evil, Broken, Perfect

'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

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This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.

Robert Browning

Forever, Losing, Lost

Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.86, tredition

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Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Robert Browning

Truth, Glasses, Done

Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.160, Pearson Education

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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.

Robert Browning

God, Puppets, Lasts

'Pippa Passes' (1841) epilogue ad fin.

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Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Robert Browning

Sympathy, Needs, World

Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.559, Wordsworth Editions

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Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled.

Robert Browning

Fate, Fulfilled

Robert Browning (2015). “Complete Plays of Robert Browning”, p.749, e-artnow sro

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Sorrow, the heart must bear,
Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there.
Many a circumstance, at least,
Touches the very breast.
For those
Whom any sent away,--he knows:
And in the live man's stead,
Armor and ashes reach
The house of each.

Robert Browning

Home, Heart, Men

Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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Imperfection means perfection hid.

Robert Browning

Mean, Perfection, Imperfection

Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.349, Oxford University Press, USA

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Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

Robert Browning

Morning, England, April

'Home-Thoughts, from the Sea' (1845)

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I, painting from myself and to myself,
Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame
Or their praise either.

Robert Browning

Acceptance, Men, Blame

"My Last Duchess and Other Poems".

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Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

Robert Browning

Song, Play, Survival

Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”, p.281

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The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.

Robert Browning

Lakes, Nymphs, Swim

Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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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

Life, Heart, Men

Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

Robert Browning

Peace, Age, Tonight

Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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Born: May 7, 1812
Died: December 12, 1889
Occupation: Poet
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