Amy Levy — British Poet born on December 30, 1861, died on December 30, 1889

Amy Judith Levy was a British essayist, poet, and novelist best remembered for her literary gifts; her experience as the first Jewish woman at Cambridge University and as a pioneering woman student at Newnham College, Cambridge; her feminist positions; her friendships with others living what came later to be called a "new woman" life, some of whom were lesbians; and her relationships with both women and men in literary and politically activist circles in London during the 1880s... (wikipedia)

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.