In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890)
-- Pippa Passes, Part iii
When earth was nigher heaven than now.
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890)
-- Pippa Passes, Part iii
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- God 's in his heaven:
All 's right with the world.
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Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part... - Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,--
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.
Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part... - All service ranks the same with God,--
With God, whose puppets,
best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first... - Say not "a small event!" Why "small"?
Costs it more pain that this ye call
A "great event" should come to pass
From that?
Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life... - Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over
the face of the whole earth.
But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen... - Was there nought better than to enjoy?
No feat which,
done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures... - When is man strong until he feels alone?
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890)
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Colombe's Birthday, Act... - And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven
to earth,
by which every creature is annexed, and depends on... - When I hear the word "Culture" I pick up my Browning.
Hanns Johst (1890-...
