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Sonnets from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
by Loyal Books
Poetry lovers and lovers themselves would certainly know and remember these lines: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.....” These and other sublime verses are contained in this collection of tender, mystical, philosophical poems Sonnets from the Portuguese, published originally in 1850. The poet herself was part of one of the most famous literary love-stories of all time – a saga filled with romance, danger and severe opposition from her family. Born into a prominent and extremely wealthy family in Durham, England, she began writing as a child and her father encouraged her talent by getting a collection of poems published when she was only twelve. Schooled in Latin and Greek, she undertook serious scholarly work as well. An undiagnosed illness rendered her a life-long invalid. Elizabeth Barrett was already a well-known poet when she began corresponding with the brilliant writer and poet Robert Browning.Robert Browning who had read and admired her poems began writing to her
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01 – I thought once how Theocritus had sung
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02 – But only three in all God’s universe
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03 – Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart
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04 – Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor
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05 – I lift my heavy heart up solemnly
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06 – Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
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07 – The face of all the world is changed, I think
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08 – What can I give thee back, O liberal
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09 – Can it be right to give what I can give?
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10 – Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful enough
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11 – And therefore if to love can be desert
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12 – Indeed this very love which is my boast
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13 – And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
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14 – If thou must love me, let it be for nought
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15 – Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
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16 – And yet, because thou overcomest so
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17 – My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
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18 – I never gave a lock of hair away
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19 – The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise
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20 – Beloved, my beloved, when I think
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21 – Say over again, and yet once over again
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22 – When our two souls stand up erect and strong
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23 – Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
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24 – Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife
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25 – A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
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26 – I lived with visions for my company
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27 – My own Beloved, who has lifted me
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28 – My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
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29 – I think of thee!–my thoughts do twine and bud
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30 – I see thine image through my tears tonight
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31 – Thou comest! All is said without a word
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32 – The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
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33 – Yes, call me by my pet-name! Let me hear
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34 – With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee
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35 – If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
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36 – When we first met and loved, I did not build
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37 – Pardon, oh, pardon that my soul should make
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38 – First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
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39 – Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace
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40 – Oh yes! they love all through this world of ours!
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41 – I thank all who have loved me in their hearts
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42 – My future will not copy fair my past
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43 – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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44 – Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
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Poetry lovers and lovers themselves would certainly know and remember these lines: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.....” These and other sublime verses are contained in this collection of tender, mystical, philosophical poems Sonnets from the Portuguese, published originally in 1850. The poet herself was part of one of the most famous literary love-stories of all time – a saga filled with romance, danger and severe opposition from her family. Born into a prominent and extremely wealthy family in Durham, England, she began writing as a child and her father encouraged her talent by getting a collection of poems published when she was only twelve. Schooled in Latin and Greek, she undertook serious scholarly work as well. An undiagnosed illness rendered her a life-long invalid. Elizabeth Barrett was already a well-known poet when she began corresponding with the brilliant writer and poet Robert Browning.Robert Browning who had read and admired her poems began writing to her
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