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Sonnets from the Portuguese

by 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)

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  1. I thought once how Theocritus had sung

  2. But only three in all God’s universe

  3. Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart

  4. Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor

  5. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly

  6. Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand

  7. The face of all the world is changed, I think

  8. What can I give thee back, O liberal

  9. Can it be right to give what I can give?

  10. Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful enough

  11. And therefore if to love can be desert

  12. Indeed this very love which is my boast

  13. And wilt thou have me fashion into speech

  14. If thou must love me, let it be for nought

  15. Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear

  16. And yet, because thou overcomest so

  17. My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes

  18. I never gave a lock of hair away

  19. The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise

  20. Beloved, my beloved, when I think

  21. Say over again, and yet once over again

  22. When our two souls stand up erect and strong

  23. Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead

  24. Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife

  25. A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne

  26. I lived with visions for my company

  27. My own Beloved, who has lifted me

  28. My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!

  29. I think of thee!–my thoughts do twine and bud

  30. I see thine image through my tears tonight

  31. Thou comest! All is said without a word

  32. The first time that the sun rose on thine oath

  33. Yes, call me by my pet-name! Let me hear

  34. With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee

  35. If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange

  36. When we first met and loved, I did not build

  37. Pardon, oh, pardon that my soul should make

  38. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed

  39. Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace

  40. Oh yes! they love all through this world of ours!

  41. I thank all who have loved me in their hearts

  42. My future will not copy fair my past

  43. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

  44. Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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)

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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...

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