Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
¶ "A Death in the Desert" (1864)
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Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet
No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.
¶ "Bishop Blougram's Apology," l. 693 (1855)
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:
Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate.
¶ "Bishop Bougram's Apology" (1855)
The year's at the spring
And 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 is heaven --
All's right with the world!
¶ "Pippa Passes", pt. 1, l. 221 (1841)
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!"
¶ "Rabbi Ben Ezra," st. 1 (1864)
There's a great text in Galatians,
Once you trip on it, entails
Twenty-nine distinct damnations,
One sure, if another fails.
¶ "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," st. 7 (1842)
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
¶ Andrea del Sarto, l. 97 (1855)
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
¶ Herakles
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