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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

~Robert Browning

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

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

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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!

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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

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

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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.

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My sun sets to rise again.

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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: May 7th, 1812

Died: December 12th, 1889

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