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Robert Browning was a 19th-century English poet and playwright. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
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“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?”
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“My sun sets to rise again.”
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