BROWNING, ROBERT

(May 7, 1812–December 12, 1889), was an English poet. His works include: Pauline, My Last Duchess; Men and Women, 1855; and The Ring and the Book, 1868–69. Robert Browning wrote:

Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be; the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in His hands who saith, “A whole I planned, youth shows but half. Trust God; see all, nor be afraid.”2455

In The Guardian Angel, 1842, Robert Browning wrote:

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.2456

Robert Browning wrote in Instans Tyrannus, 1845:

Just my vengeance complete,

The man sprang to his feet,

Stood erect, caught at God’s skirts, and prayed!

—So, I was afraid!2457