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ROBERT BROWNING BELIEVED IN GOD The English poet, Robert Browning, temporarily chose to follow Shelley’s example and adopted Atheism. Later, he too returned to the belief in God and considered the existence of God, “as certain beyond the need of proof.” (Britannica, 1974, 336). From "Christmas-Eve" V From the heart beneath, as if, God speeding me, I entered His church door, nature leading me In youth I looked to these very skies, and probing their immensities , I found God there, His visible power; --------- My soul brought all to a single test That He the Eternal First and Last, Who, in His power, had so surpassed All man conceives of what is might, Whose wisdom, too, showed infinite, Would prove as infinitely good; ------- V And I shall behold Thee, face to face, O God, and in Thy light retrace How in all I loved Thee, still wast Thou! Whom pressing to, then, as I fain would now, I shall find as able to satiate The love, Thy gift, as my spirit=s wonder Thou art able to quicken and sublimate, With this sky of Thine, that I now walk under, And glory in Thee for, as I gaze Thus, thus! Oh, let men keep their ways Of seeking Thee in a narrow shrine -- Be this my way! And this mine!
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