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ALCOVES

EASTER DAY & CHRISTMAS EVE

Charles J. Connick Associates, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

Companion alcoves on each side of the Martin Entrance Foyer receive sunlight through windows that represent Browning's companion poems of 1850, "Easter Day" (left window) and "Christmas Eve" (right window). These two poems were the first that Browning published after his marriage to Elizabeth Barrett. In few other instances does Browning make stronger implications about his religious belief. The Easter Day Alcove connects the Entrance Foyer to the Leddy-Jones Research Hall; the Christmas Eve Alcove connects the Entrance Foyer to the Hankamer Treasure Room.

Easter Day (Left)

He who in all his works below
Adapted to the needs of man,
Made love the basis of the plan

Dedicated to the memory of
Charles E. Gooch

Donor: Mrs. Angel Gooch

Christmas Eve (Right)

In youth I looked to these very skies,
And probing their immensities,
I found God there

In memory of Robert Woodfin
Boggess, Jr.

Donors: Mr. and Mrs. Woodfin Boggess