I shall but love thee better after death. Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose, In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight I love thee to the depth and breadth and height This work did not impress most critics, though it was a huge popular success.How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. During the second visit, Elizabeth Barrett Browning completed her most ambitious work, Aurora Leigh (1857), a long blank-verse poem telling the complicated and melodramatic love story of a young girl and a misguided philanthropist. In 1851 and in 1855 the couple visited London. The couple then settled in Florence, where their only child, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, was born in 1849.

(When Barrett died in 1857, Elizabeth was still unforgiven.) While in Pisa she wrote The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point (Boston, 1848 London, 1849), a protest against slavery in the United States. Her father knew nothing of it, and Elizabeth continued to live at home for a week. Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850) records her reluctance to marry, but their wedding had taken place on September 12, 1846. Their courtship (whose daily progress is recorded in their letters) was kept a close secret from Elizabeth’s despotic father, of whom she stood in some fear. In January 1845 she received from the poet Robert Browning a letter that begins with “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,” and culminates with “I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart-and I love you too.” In early summer the two met.

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