One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

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

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning

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.
Robert Browning

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

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning