Love Letter From Victorian Poet Robert Browning to
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After Marriage

You will only expect a few words, what will those be? When the heart is full it may run over, but the real fullness stays within.

You asked me yesterday "if I should repent?" Yes, my own Ba, I could with all the past were to do over again, that in it I might somewhat more, never so little more, conform in the outward homage, to the inward feeling, What I have professed, (for I have performed nothing) seems to fall short of what my first love required even, and when I think of this moment's love...I could repent, as I say.

Words can never tell you, however, form them, transform them anyway, how perfectly dear you are to me, perfectly dear to my heart and soul.

I look back, and in every one point, every word and gesture, every letter, every silence, you have been entirley perfect to me, I would not change one word, one look.

My hope and aim are to preserve this love, not to fall from it, for which I trust to God who procured it for me, and doubtless can preserve it.

Enough now, my dearest, dearest, own Ba! You have given me the highest, completest proof of love that ever one human being gave another. I am all gratitude, and all pride (under the proper feeling which ascribes pride to the right source) all pride that my life has been so crowned by you.

...would I, if I could, supplant one of any of the affections that I know to have taken root in you - that great and solemn one, for instance. I feel that if I could get myself remade, as if turned to gold, I WOULD not even then desire to become more than the mere setting to that diamond you must always wear.

The regard and esteem you now give me, in this letter, and which I press to my heart and bow my head upon, is all I can take and all too embarrassing, using all my gratitude.

God bless you prays your very own R.
- Love Letter From
Robert Browning
To Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love Letters From Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Robert Browning

And now listen to me in turn. You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything...
- Love Letter by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Robert Browning

It seems to me, to myself, that no man was ever before to any woman what you are to me - the fulness must be in proportion, you know, to the vacancy… and only I know what was behind - the long wilderness without the blossoming rose… and the capacity for happiness, like a black gaping hole, before this silver flooding.

Is it wonderful that I should stand as in a dream, and disbelieve - not you - but my own fate? Was ever any one taken suddenly from a lampless dungeon and placed upon the pinnacle of a mountain, without the head turning round and the heart turning faint, as mine do?
- Love Letter by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Robert Browning

How good is man's life, the mere living!
How fit to employ all the heart and the
soul and the senses forever in joy!
- Robert Browning

So, fall asleep love, loved by me...
for I know love, I am loved by thee.
- Robert Browning

I love thee to the level of everyday's most
quiet need,by sun and candle light...
I love thee with the breath,smiles,
tears,of all my life.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning