Robert Browning

“ Was there nought better than to enjoy?
⁠No feat which, done, would make time break,
And let us pent-up creatures through
⁠Into eternity, our due?
No forcing earth teach Heaven's employ? ”

“ All I am, was, and might be,
⁠All, books taught, art brought, life's whole strife,
Painful results since precious, just
⁠Were fitly exchanged in wise disgust
For two cheeks freshened by youth and sea?
20.
"'All for a nosegay!—what came first;
⁠With fields on flower, untried each side;
I rally, need my books and men,
⁠And find a nosegay: drop it, then,
No match yet made for best or worst!'"
21.
That ended me. You judged the porch
⁠We left by, Norman; took our look
At sea and sky; wondered so few
⁠Find out the place for air and view ”