Show robert courtship aa As we all know it was mr kenyon who fiat introduced robert browning to his future wife and the story as told by mrs mm orr Is most romantic the poet was about thirty two years of age at this time in the fullness of his powers posed to be a confirmed invalid confined to her own room and to her couch seeing no one living her own spiritual life indeed but looking for none other when mr kenyon first brought mr browning to her fathers house miss barretts reputation was well established by thia this time lady Ger Geraldl aldines nes courtship waa was already published in which the author bad had written of drowning browning among other poets as of some pomegranate which it if cut deep down the middle shows a heart within blood tinctured of a veined humanity andone and one can canwell well believe that tah present meeting must have been but a phase in an old and long existing sympathy between kindred spirita very soon after afterward ivard the poets became engaged and they were mar ried la in the autumn of the year 6 who doea does pot not know the story of this marriage of true souls lias not mrs alm browning herself spoken of it in words I 1 indelible n and never to be quoted without ut sympathy by nil all women while be he from his own fireside has struck chord after chord of manly feeling than which this life contains nothing deeper or moro more true anna T in to harpers |