More from Robert Browning

  1. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
  2. If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.
  3. I do what many dream of, all their lives, --Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such On twice y…
  4. You should not take a fellow eight years old And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
  5. 'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
  6. I count life just a stuff To try the soul's strength on.
  7. 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!
  8. What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

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