Quote #17

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, - wonder, wealth, and - how far above them -

More from Robert Browning

  1. A minute's success pays the failure of years.
  2. What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
  3. The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut and lips m…
  4. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong…
  5. My sun sets to rise again.
  6. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:
  7. Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.
  8. Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.

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