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• For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
• 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 (1812-1890) -- Saul, vi...
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Rabbi Ben Ezra
• In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Pippa Passes, Part iii...
• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!
  Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strai...
• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due?
  No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?...
• The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb. -- William Shakespeare
• O lyric love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire !
  -- Robert Browning...
• Thy Linking our England to his Italy.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- The Ring and the Book, The Book and the Ring, Line 873...