human
that the poem was
gpt
[24] And the
human
when they came, in _Men and Women_, bore the mark of his ten years' fellowship with her devout and ecstatic soul, as well as of his own growth towards the richer and fuller harmonies of verse. The 1845 fragment falls, of course, far short of its sequel in imaginative audacity and splendour, but it is steeped in a pellucid beauty which Browning's busy intellectuality was too prone to dissipate. Kenyon read it nightly, as he told Mrs Browning,
gpt
; finely comparing it to
human
Homer's Shield of Achilles, thrown into lyrical whirl and life.