O to be in EnglandNow that April’s there,And whoever wakes in EnglandSees, some morning, unaware,That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheafRound the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,While the chaffinch sings on the orchard boughIn England—now!
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Robert Browning quotes & passages
3 passages by Robert Browning, from Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, Rabbi Ben Ezra and Andrea del Sarto. Robert Browning died in 1889, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
About Robert Browning
English poet and playwright (1812–1889), husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, known for dramatic monologues such as “My Last Duchess” and “Andrea del Sarto”.
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Grow old along with me!The best is yet to be,The last of life, for which the first was made:Our times are in His handWho saith, "A whole I planned,Youth shows but half; trust God: see all nor be afraid!"
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?
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