WEDDED LIFE IN ITALY.

_MEN AND WOMEN_.
This foot, once planted on the goal; This glory-garland round my soul.
-- _The Last Ride Together_.
Warmer climes Give brighter plumage, stronger wing; the breeze Of Alpine highths thou playest with, borne on Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
-- LANDOR.
I.
The _Bells and Pomegranates_ made no very great way with the public, which found the matter unequal and the title obscure.

But both the title and the greater part of the single poems are linked inseparably with the most intimate personal relationship of his life.

Hardly one of the Romances, as we saw, but had been read in MS.

by Elizabeth Barrett, and pronounced upon with the frank yet critical delight of her nature.