organ-chants

Updated: July 10, 2026

We think of him as dwelling on high Olympus; we read his lines by the light of dim candles; we quote him in sonorous monotone at twilight when soft-sounding organ-chants come to us mellow and sweet. Browning's poems form a lover's litany to that elect few who hold that the true mating of a man and a woman is the marriage of the mind.

Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 : Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors