Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning · The opening of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," a long meditation on age spoken by a medieval rabbi; borrowed for every anniversary since, and by John Lennon for a song.
Robert Browning: English poet, husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1812 to 1889.
Robert Browning · The opening of "Rabbi Ben Ezra," a long meditation on age spoken by a medieval rabbi; borrowed for every anniversary since, and by John Lennon for a song.
Robert Browning · A street song in "Fra Lippo Lippi" that the monk and painter hears from his window and climbs down to follow.
Robert Browning · The source reads: “I had rather hear from you than see anybody else.” · Browning to Elizabeth Barrett on February 11, 1845, in the first weeks of their correspondence, months before they met.
Robert Browning · The source reads: “I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,—and this is no off-hand complimentary letter that I shall write... I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too.” · The first letter Browning ever sent Elizabeth Barrett, on 10 January 1845, before they had met; the familiar form splices the opening words to the sentence near the end, "I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart—and I love you too." They eloped twenty months later.
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