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One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted,—wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted,—wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 147; printed byline: Robert Browning; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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