September 12

Today in 1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were married. How beautifully they both wrote. By Elizabeth:

Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor


Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems! where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching thy...lips for more.
And dost thou lift this house’s latch too poor
For hand of thine? and canst thou think and bear
To let thy music drop here unaware
In folds of golden fulness at my door?...