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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
Love
Earth
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
First
Song
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
Age
Day
Man
Youth
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
Rest
Shakespeare
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
Ecstasy
Eyes
Open
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning
Man
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
Love
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
Business
Life
Being
Choice
Man
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning
Thought
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
Soul
Kissing
Wonder
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
Age
Dew
Youth
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning
Old
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
Clouds
Fight
Right
Sleep
Wrong
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning
Kiss
Girls
Old
Years
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert Browning
Earth
Heaven