10 Robert Browning Quotes on Nature

Robert Browning quotes on nature

1. Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

5. The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn; God's in His heaven- All's right with the world!

6. 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 cooks' 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.

13. My sun sets to rise again.

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 -

22. Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.

23. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

29. If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.

44. O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire.

47. Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.