Quote #19
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 meet!
More from Robert Browning
- One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong…
- 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 …
- 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:
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.
- What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
- That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
- How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses Forever in joy!