Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh: Book Fourth
... See there! The crammed aisles heave and strain and steam with life ...
Aurora Leigh
... l Good !We 'll keep our aims sublime, our eyes erect,Although our woman-hands should shake and fail ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee?
... e breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: IX
... rple with my dust,Nor breathe my poison on thy Venice-glass,Nor give thee any love-which were unjust ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: VI
... And when I sueGod for myself, He hears that name of thine,And sees within my eyes the tears of two ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: VII
... loved yesterday,(The singing angels know) are only dearBecause thy name moves right in what they say ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: VIII
... life, and left so deadAnd pale a stuff, it were not fitly doneTo give the same as pillow to thy head ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: X
... erior featuresOf what I am, doth flash itself, and showHow that great work of Love enhances Nature's ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XI
... icating graceTo live on still in love, and yet in vain,-To bless thee, yet renounce thee to thy face ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XII
... hee on a golden throne,-And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XIII
... ife, in brief,By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XIV
... love thereby!But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XIX
... oth-kissing breath,I tie the shadows safe from gliding back,And lay the gift where nothing hindereth ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XL
... ou canst waitThrough sorrow and sickness, to bring souls to touch,And think it soon when others cry ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLI
... thy divinest Art'sOwn instrument didst drop down at thy footTo harken what I said between my tears, ...
