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More Poems by Robert Browning. Abt Vogler. By Robert Browning. Among the Rocks. By Robert Browning. Andrea del Sarto. By Robert Browning. The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church. ... Although the early part of Robert Browning’s creative life was spent in comparative obscurity, he has come to be regarded as one of the most ...
Robert Browning was an English poet born in 1812. He is considered one of the preeminent Victorian poets of the period. His work is noted for its dark humor, historical commentary, and challenging syntax. He published numerous long poems throughout his career, including The Ring and the Book.
Load audio player. Robert Browning. 1812 –. 1889. That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call. That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf's hands. Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. By Robert Browning. Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied; But, when begins my ditty, Almost five hundred years ago,
Your soft hand is a woman of itself, And mine the man's bared breast she curls inside. Don't count the time lost, neither; you must serve. For each of the five pictures we require: It saves a model. So! keep looking so— My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds! —How could you ever prick those perfect ears, Even to put the pearl there! oh, so sweet—
I. The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap. In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. II. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
1889. Read poems by this poet. read this poet's poems. Robert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, England. His mother was an accomplished pianist and a devout evangelical Christian. His father, who worked as a bank clerk, was also an artist, scholar, antiquarian, and collector of books and pictures.
