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Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you,
And did you speak to him again?
How strange it seems and new!

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Memorabilia (l. 1-4). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.)
Then the two hearts beating each to each!

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Meeting at Night (l. 12). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.)
She thanked men,?good! but thanked
Somehow?I know not how?as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody's gift.

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. My Last Duchess (l. 31-34). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.)
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. My Last Duchess (l. 1-2). . . The Poems; Vol. 1 [Robert Browning]. John Pettigrew, ed. (1981) Penguin.)
Well then, 'supposeth He is good i' the main,
Placable if His mind and ways were guessed,
But rougher than His handiwork, be sure!

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island (l. 110-112). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place,

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (l. 65). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
Let's contend no more, Love
Strive nor weep:
All be as before, Love,
MOnly sleep!

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. A Woman's Last Word, st. 1, Men and Women, vol. 1 (1855).)
No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Bishop Blougram's Apology, l. 693-4, Men and Women, vol. 1 (1855).)
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Bishop Blougram's Apology, l. 396-8, Men and Women, vol. 1 (1855). These lines were cited by Graham Greene as the epigraph he would choose for all of his novels.)
Truth that peeps
Over the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. Bishop Blougram's Apology, l. 17-8, Men and Women, vol. 1 (1855).)