Robert Browning
Make us happy and you make us good.Collection: Happiness
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.Collection: Struggle
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of musicCollection: Music
Once more on my adventure brave and new.Collection: Travel
'Tis only when they spring to Heaven that angels reveal themselves to you.Collection: Spring
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.Collection: Art
Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles. Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.Collection: Dog
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.Collection: Sleep
The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.Collection: Lying
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.Collection: Ocean
Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.Collection: Tree
Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?Collection: Love
Youth means love, Vows can't change nature, priests are only men.Collection: Mean
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.Collection: Song
The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means.Collection: Life
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?Collection: Dies
Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.Collection: Men
In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe.Collection: Believe
But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.Collection: Musician
If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.Collection: Stars
Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.Collection: Life
What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.Collection: Work
O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.Collection: Beauty
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.Collection: God
Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?Collection: Sympathy
My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.Collection: Reality
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.Collection: Time
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind herCollection: Heart
When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe’s Birthday.Collection: Strong
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth’s male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.Collection: Country