A Romantic Love Letter written by Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written January 10, 1846

It seems to me, to myself, that no man was ever before to any woman what you are to me - the fulness must be in proportion, you know, to the vacancy… and only I know what was behind - the long wilderness without the blossoming rose… and the capacity for happiness, like a black gaping hole, before this silver flooding.

Is it wonderful that I should stand as in a dream, and disbelieve - not you - but my own fate? Was ever any one taken suddenly from a lampless dungeon and placed upon the pinnacle of a mountain, without the head turning round and the heart turning faint, as mine do?

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Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning. Note how she describes life before she met Robert as a "dungeon" and afterwards like being on a mountain top. I hope you have the same experience of love.