Robert Browning's Poetry, by popularity

• The Ring And The Book - Chapter V - Count Guido Franceschini

  THANKS, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court,
  I feel I can stand somehow, half sit down

  2082 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter XI - Guido

  YOU ARE the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you,
  Abate Panciatichi—two good Tuscan names:

  2441 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter XII - The Book And The Ring

  HERE were the end, had anything an end:
  Thus, lit and launched, up and up roared and soared

  918 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter III - The Other Half-Rome

  ANOTHER DAY that finds her living yet,
  Little Pompilia, with the patient brow

  1735 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter VI - Giuseppe Caponsacchi

  ANSWER you, Sirs? Do I understand aright?
  Have patience! In this sudden smoke from hell,—

  2162 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter IX - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius

  HAD I God’s leave, how I would alter things!
  If I might read instead of print my speech,—

  1617 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter VIII - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis

  AH, my Giacinto, he’s no ruddy rogue,
  Is not Cinone? What, to-day we’re eight?

  1842 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter X - The Pope

  LIKE to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince,
  I will begin,—as is, these seven years now,

  2171 lines
• Pheidippides

  [Greek: Chairete, nikomen]
  First I salute this soil of the blessed, river and rock!

  139 lines
• Easter-Day

  HOW very hard it is to be
  A Christian! Hard for you and me,

  1118 lines
• Fears And Scruples

  Here's my case. Of old I used to love him.
    This same unseen friend, before I knew:

  58 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter I - The Ring And The Book

  DO you see this Ring?
                  ’Tis Rome-work, made to match

  1445 lines
• Herve Riel

  On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety two,
  Did the English fight the French,--woe to France!

  150 lines
• Songs From Pippa Passes

  Faster and more fast,
  O'er night's brim, day boils at last:

  50 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter II - Half-Rome

  WHAT, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I’d meet.)
  Be ruled by me and have a care o’the crowd:

  1586 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter VII - Pompilia

  I AM just seventeen years and five months old,
  And, if I lived one day more, three full weeks;

  1912 lines
• One Word More

  TO E.B.B.
  I

  276 lines
• The Ring And The Book - Chapter IV - Tertium Quid

  TRUE, Excellency—as his Highness says,
  Though she’s not dead yet, she’s as good as stretched

  1680 lines
• A Tale

  (_Epilogue to "The Two Poets of Croisic."_)
  What a pretty tale you told me

  126 lines
• Christmas-Eve

  OUT of the little chapel I burst
  Into the fresh night air again.

  1404 lines
• Natural Magic

  All I can say is--I saw it!
  The room was as bare as your hand.

  18 lines
• Apparent Failure

  "We shall soon lose a celebrated building."
                      --_Paris Newspape

  72 lines
• A Wall

  O the old wall here! How I could pass
    Life in a long midsummer day,

  28 lines
• Tray

  Sing me a hero! Quench my thirst
  Of soul, ye bards!

  53 lines
• A Face

  If one could have that little head of hers
  Painted upon a background of pure gold,

  21 lines
• Apparitions

  (_Prologue to "The Two Poets of Croisic."_)
  Such a starved bank of moss

  15 lines
• To Edward Fitzgerald

  I chanced upon a new book yesterday;
  I opened it, and, where my finger lay

  12 lines
• The Bishop Orders His Tomb At Saint Praxed's Church

  Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity!
  Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back?

  125 lines
• Verse-Making Was Least of My Virtues

  Verse-making was least of my virtues: I viewed with despair
  Wealth that never yet was but might be--all that verse-making were

  10 lines
• The Statue and the Bust

  There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well,
  And a statue watches it from the square,

  250 lines

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