Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
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and sixty-five times, the shy moon takes exactly the same length of
time to turn around as she takes to circle once around the earth. For this reason, earth's inhabitants have never seen but one side of the moon, and never will. Elizabeth Browning is _his_ moon, because she shows the other side to him alone. The radiant splendor of her poetry fills the whole earth with light; but to her husband she shows the other side, the loving, domestic woman, the unspeakably precious and intimate associate of his daily life. The world thinks it knows her; but it has seen only one side; it knows nothing of the marvellous depth and purity of her real nature. ONE WORD MORE TO E.B.B. 1855 I There they are, my fifty men and women Naming me the fifty poems finished! Take them, Love, the book and me together: Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. II Rafael made a century of sonnets, Made and wrote them in a certain volume |
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