Our Balzac should be flattered beyond measure by my thinking of him at all. Which I did, but of you more. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,
Until the lengthening wings break into fire
At either curvèd point, — what bitter wrong
Can the earth do to us, that we should not long
Be here contented?

But since he had
The genius to be loved, why let him have
The justice to be honoured in his grave.