English - Poet | May 7, 1812 - December 12, 1889
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
SoulWonderStopLeftI WonderHad
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.
ManFightWorthWithinSomething
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
PassionPainInfiniteHeartsOnly
Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.
MoreLittleAwayWorldsMuchHow
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
GodArtDayFeelHeavenEarth
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!
LifeGoodHeartSoulManJoy
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
MeComfortsAspired
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
AloneMenWordsWhyStriveDeeds
Faultless to a fault.
Fault
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
KissYouNeverOldHimYears
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
LifeGoodBusinessManBlackChoice
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
GodSoulReligionStandEarthSure
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