Eurydice To Orpheus
A Picture By Leighton
By Robert Browning

BUT give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
Let them once more absorb me!  One look now
      Will lap me round for ever, not to pass
Out of its light, though darkness lie beyond:
Hold me but safe again within the bond
       Of one immortal look!  All woe that was,
Forgotten, and all terror that may be,
Defied, –no past is mine, no future: look at me!

— from Poetry And The Drama: The Poems of Robert Browning Volume II (1844-1864), E. Rhys (Ed.), J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. N.Y. 1909.

Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud c.1888 Source: wikipedia.org

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

In 1833, Browning anonymously published his first major published work, Pauline. After reading Elizabeth Barrett‘s Poems (1844) and corresponding with her for a few months, Browning met her in 1845. They were married in 1846.

The Browning Society was founded while he still lived, in 1881, and he was awarded honorary degrees by Oxford University in 1882 and the University of Edinburgh in 1884.