God is the perfect poet.

Quote by Robert Browning

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

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

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

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious...

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious...

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, For...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by...

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break,...

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

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

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

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never...

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant...