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Men and Women was published. It is difficult to understand how a collection comprising poems such as
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Love among the Ruins,
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Evelyn Hope,
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Fra Lippo Lippi,
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A Toccata of Galuppi's,
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Any Wife to any Husband,
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Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha,
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Andrea del Sarto,
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In a Balcony,
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Saul,
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A Grammarian's Funeral, to mention only ten now almost universally known, did not at once obtain a national popularity for the author. But lovers of literature were simply enthralled: and the two volumes had a welcome from them which was perhaps all the more ardent because of their disproportionate numbers. Ears alert to novel poetic music must have thrilled to the new strain which sounded first--
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Love among the Ruins,
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Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half asleep Tinkle homeward through the twilight, stray or stop As they crop-- Was the site once of a city great and gay ...
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Aurora Leigh