Evelyn Hope

Evelyn Hope is a poem written by Robert Browning in his work "Men and Women", 1855.

In the list of Browning's best love lyrics, Evelyn Hope (first published in "Men and Women", 1855) takes a very high rank as one of the most musical and tender.

The theme is that of a love which, from its conditions, could not be reciprocated, yet would prove undying.

[1]Author Lucy Maud Montgomery used two lines from this poem as the epigraph for her novel Anne of Green Gables: "The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit and fire and dew."

There was one slight modification in that the original poem read "made you of spirit, fire, and dew."