Life with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, … - Robert Browning

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Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

Robert Browning

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Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

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Alternative Names: Robert Barrett Browning • Browning

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For, looking up, aware I somehow grew,
’Spite of the dusk, the plain had given place
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