1.  A True Love Story Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning SMIC English 12 Regular

2.  Elizabeth Barrett (1806 – 1861) Robert Browning (1812-1889)

3.   Take notes as we read “Scenes from Modern Marriage.”  What are the most memorable details of the Brownings’ love story? Famous Love Story

4.  Love Letter by Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett January 10th, 1845 New Cross, Hatcham, Surrey I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett, -- and this is no off-hand complimentary letter that I shall write, --whatever else, no prompt matter- of-course recognition of your genius and there a graceful and natural end of the thing: since the day last week when I first read your poems, I quite laugh to remember how I have been turning again in my mind what I should be able to tell you of their effect upon me …

5.  Sonnet 43 from the Sonnets of the Portuguese  Sonnet VII  The face of all the world is changed, I think,  Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous poem.  Read and understand the sonnet on page 838

6.  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7.  Escape me? Never-- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue… Life in a Love Robert Browning

8.  The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i' the slushy sand. Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach; Three fields to cross till a farm appears; A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each! Meeting at Night Robert Browning

9.  XIV If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say I love her for her smile--her look--her way Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of ease on such a day — For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheek dry,-- A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. Elizabeth Barrett Browning