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Fanmix: Dared and Done
Medium: Theatre
Fandom: The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Subject: Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Robert Browning
Title: Dared and Done
Warnings: Um. I make fanmixes about nineteenth-century poets?
Notes: Loosely based on The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with expansion into their later lives. What can I say, I find these two adorable, especially because, quite apart from their personal lives, Robert Browning was a huge ridiculous fangirl of Elizabeth's work and didn't care who knew it.




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Theme For a Pretty Girl Who Makes You Believe God Exists, The Eels
[instrumental]
A nice little opening instrumental; their first meeting, mutual fangirling, and adorableness.

When the Day Met the Night, Panic At the Disco
Well he was just hanging around
Then he fell in love
And he didn't know how
But he couldn't get out
Just hanging around
Then he fell in love
Robert Browning was not expecting this. Neither was Elizabeth Barrett.

Song For A Winter's Night, Sarah McLachlan and Jewel
The lamp is burning low upon my tabletop; the snow is softly falling
The air is still within the silence of my room; I hear your voice softly calling
If I could only have you near to breathe a sigh or two
I would be happy just to hold the hands I love on this winter night with you
Elizabeth is a little bit in denial, but she recognizes that she likes him, and loves being around him, and that he's good for her, this hurricane that's burst in on her solitude.

That's All, Michael Bublé
I can only give you love that lasts forever,
And a promise to be near each time you call.
And the only heart I own
For you and you alone
That's all, that's all...
Robert, on the other hand, believes denial is for wimps.

Sing You A Love Song, Of Montreal
Before the laughter and the cheer disolves into his memory,
Taste of vodka on his lips, and thoughts of murder and doom,
Her eyes appeared to bloom,
He wanted to touch them but was afraid she taken aback
Then what would he say
Subsequent meetings: Robert attempts to convince Elizabeth that he really really means this, no really, whilst Elizabeth remains skeptical.

Head Over Heels, Yiruma
[instrumental]
Elizabeth stops being in denial. And says so.

Corner of Your Heart, Ingrid Michaelson
There's a corner of your heart for me.
There's a corner of your heart just for me.
I will pack my bags just to stay in the corner of your heart.
Just to stay in the corner of your heart.
Robert's willing to give up everything for her, and she for him. So they elope. Because who needs Mr. Barrett, anyway?

How Do I Love Thee? The Merry Wives of Windsor
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways...
Elizabeth's famous Sonnets from the Portugese. Their married life together.

Soon, Love, Soon, Vienna Teng
(Soon love soon)
We will find illumination in unnatural light
(Soon love soon)
You will travel a thousand miles without leaving my sight
Elizabeth is dying, and she knows it, but she had Robert for fifteen years, and that was all she ever wanted.

Magic, Ben Folds Five
Stars in your eyes
Free from the life that you knew
You're the magic that holds the sky up from the ground
You're the breath that blows these cool winds 'round
Trading places with an angel now
Robert Browning never remarried.