Robert Browning,
Dramatis Personæ — A Face
(1864)
“ Up to the fruit-shaped, perfect chin it lifts! I know, Correggio loves to mass, in rifts Of heaven, his angel faces, orb on orb Breaking its outline, burning shades absorb: But these are only massed there, I should think, Waiting to see some wonder momently Grow out, stand full, fade slow against the sky (That's the pale ground you 'd see this sweet face by) , All heaven, meanwhile, condensed into one eye Which fears to lose the wonder, should it wink. ”
