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Robert Browning

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

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No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold.

Arrears, Cold, Fare, Hero, Life, Pain

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

Earth, Heaven, Knowledge, Praise, Vanity

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

Art, Doe, Likes, Make, May, Thing

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Forgiving, Good

Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy. '

Heart, Italy, My Heart, Open, See

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

Brother, Exceeds, Life, Think, Thinking, Unworldliness

Truth never hurts the teller.

Hurt, Hurts, Teller, Truth, Wisdom

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing. . . . . I am in full sunshine now.

Blessing, Love, Love You, Sunshine, Unutterable

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

Life, Strength, Soul, Stuff

There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.

Golf, Imitation, Three, Way, Wearisome

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

Call, Fool, Fools, God, Nature

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

Break, Hangs, Land, Loaded, Sea, Tumultuous

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Failure, God, Low, Lows, Succeed

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

Hope, Hopes, Men, Partly, Progress, Wholly

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Doubt, Faith, Prove, Say, Stronger

How very hard it is to be a Christian!

Christian, Christianity, Hard

It's like those eerie stories nurses tell, Of how some actor on a stage played Death, With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart, And called himself the monarch of the world; Then, going in the tire-room afterward, Because the play was done, to shift himself, Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly, The moment he had shut the closet door, By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope At unawares, ask what his baubles mean, And whose part he presumed to play just now. Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

Being Yourself, Death, Imperial, Mean, Presumed, Sleeve

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Begin, Dry, Eye, Eyes, Fall, Laughing

Love is the energy of life.

Energy, Energy Of Life, Life, Love, Motivational

Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.

Mean, Men, Priests, Vows, Youth

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