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“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”

Robert Browning The Ring and the Book

Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)

“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 2.
Paracelsus (1835)

“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Charles Avison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Childe Roland to the dark Tower came, xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)

“Wanting is—what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Wanting—is what?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Truth is within ourselves.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

“What's come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”

Robert Browning Men and Women

"A Grammarian's Funeral".
Men and Women (1855)

“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”

Robert Browning Colombe's Birthday

Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)

“The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.”

Robert Browning Cleon

Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Balaustion's Adventure.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

Why I am a Liberal.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“[…]his back is fairly turned?
The pair of goodly palaces are burned,
The gardens ravaged, and your Guelf is drunk
A week with joy; the next, his laughter sunk
In sobs of blood, for he found, some strange way,
Old Salinguerra back again; I say
Old Salinguerra in the town once more
Uprooting, overturning, flame before
Blood fetlock-high beneath him; Azzo fled;
Who scaped the carnage followed; then the dead
Were pushed aside from Salinguerra's throne.
He ruled once more Ferrara, all alone.
Till Azzo, stunned awhile, revived, would pounce;
Coupled with Boniface, like lynx and ounce.”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the First
Sordello (1840)

“I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first,
I ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time.”

Robert Browning Paracelsus

Part 1.
Paracelsus (1835)

“God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear,
To give sign we and they are his children, one family here.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

"Saul", vi.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)

“For I say this is death and the sole death,—
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

A Death in the Desert (1864)

“over zealous in the feat
And stumbling on a peril unaware.
Was captive, "trammelled in his proper snare,"
They phrase it, "taken by his own intrigue"”

Robert Browning book Sordello

Book the First
Sordello (1840)

“Kiss me as if you made believe
You were not sure, this eve,
How my face, your flower, had pursed
It's petals up.”

Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era

"In a Gondola", line 49 (1842).