Voir Book V, v. 20 et suiv

• (With) the great escapings of ecêtalic soûls Who, in a rush of too long prisoned flame, Their radiant faces upward, burn away This dark of the body, issuing on a world Beyond our mortal. • Voir aussi ces vers (Book IV, v. 1151) où Mrs. Browning a résumé sa théorie :

.... « What is art, But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushes toward the intense significance Of ail things, hungry for the Infinité? »