Robert Browning

English Victorian poet, 1812–1889. 1 explained quote.

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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning · 1864

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“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

Robert Browning · “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” Dramatis Personae · 1864 · Poet

Old age is not a decline to dread but the goal that youth was preparing for. Browning's speaker invites a listener to grow old with him because the later years complete the life.

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About Robert Browning

Robert Browning was a Victorian poet best known for his dramatic monologues, poems spoken by a single character, such as “My Last Duchess.” In 1846 he secretly married the poet Elizabeth Barrett and they lived in Italy until her death in 1861. Fame came to him late, in his fifties.