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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Elizabeth was initially hesitant to publish the poems, feeling that they were too personal. However, Robert insisted that they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided that she might publish them under a title disguising the poems as translations of foreign sonnets. Therefore, the collection was first to be known as Sonnets from the Bosnian, until Robert suggested that she change their imaginary original language to Portuguese, probably after his nickname for her: "my little Portuguese." (Summary from Wikipedia)

Year of Publication: 1850Genres: Sonnets , Poetry
Running Time: 0 hour 47 minutes 59 seconds
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1
The Nights
I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Kirsten Ferreri
1:11
2
The Nights
But only three in all God’s universe
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
3
The Nights
Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart
Kirsten Ferreri
1:04
4
The Nights
Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
5
The Nights
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly
Kirsten Ferreri
1:08
6
The Nights
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
7
The Nights
The face of all the world is changed, I think
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
8
The Nights
What can I give thee back, O liberal
Kirsten Ferreri
1:07
9
The Nights
Can it be right to give what I can give?
Kirsten Ferreri
1:04
10
The Nights
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful enough
Kirsten Ferreri
1:12
11
The Nights
And therefore if to love can be desert
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
12
The Nights
Indeed this very love which is my boast
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
13
The Nights
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
14
The Nights
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
15
The Nights
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Kirsten Ferreri
1:03
16
The Nights
And yet, because thou overcomest so
Kirsten Ferreri
1:03
17
The Nights
My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
Kirsten Ferreri
1:09
18
The Nights
I never gave a lock of hair away
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
19
The Nights
The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise
Kirsten Ferreri
1:07
20
The Nights
Beloved, my beloved, when I think
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
21
The Nights
Say over again, and yet once over again
Kirsten Ferreri
1:10
22
The Nights
When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Kirsten Ferreri
1:03
23
The Nights
Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
Kirsten Ferreri
1:04
24
The Nights
Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife
Kirsten Ferreri
1:01
25
The Nights
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
Kirsten Ferreri
1:02
26
The Nights
I lived with visions for my company
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
27
The Nights
My own Beloved, who has lifted me
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
28
The Nights
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
Kirsten Ferreri
1:08
29
The Nights
I think of thee!–my thoughts do twine and bud
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
30
The Nights
I see thine image through my tears tonight
Kirsten Ferreri
1:04
31
The Nights
Thou comest! All is said without a word
Kirsten Ferreri
1:01
32
The Nights
The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
Kirsten Ferreri
1:03
33
The Nights
Yes, call me by my pet-name! Let me hear
Kirsten Ferreri
1:03
34
The Nights
With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee
Kirsten Ferreri
1:01
35
The Nights
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
Kirsten Ferreri
1:00
36
The Nights
When we first met and loved, I did not build
Kirsten Ferreri
1:06
37
The Nights
Pardon, oh, pardon that my soul should make
Kirsten Ferreri
1:01
38
The Nights
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
Kirsten Ferreri
1:13
39
The Nights
Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace
Kirsten Ferreri
1:04
40
The Nights
Oh yes! they love all through this world of ours!
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
41
The Nights
I thank all who have loved me in their hearts
Kirsten Ferreri
1:02
42
The Nights
My future will not copy fair my past
Kirsten Ferreri
1:05
43
The Nights
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Kirsten Ferreri
1:09
44
The Nights
Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
Kirsten Ferreri
1:09

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