Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLII
... ast,While budding, at thy sight, my pilgrim's staffGave out green leaves with morning dews impearled ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLIII
... he breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XLIV
... eglantine,Here's ivy!-take them, as I used to doThy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XV
... But I look on thee-on thee-Beholding, besides love, the end of love,Hearing oblivion beyond memory ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XVI
... vanquished soldier yields his swordTo one who lifts him from the bloody earth,Even so, Belovè ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XVII
... medicated music, answering forMankind's forlornest uses, thou canst pourFrom thence into their ears ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XVIII
... stified,-Take it thou,-finding pure, from all those years,The kiss my mother left here when she died ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XX
... lossoms whiteThou sawest growing! Atheists are as dull,Who cannot guess God's presence out of sight ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXI
... ove me, love me-tollThe silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,To love me also in silence with thy soul ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXII
... irits, and permitA place to stand and love in for a day,With darkness and the death-hour rounding it ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXIII
... And would the sun for thee more coldly shineBecause of grave-damps falling round my head ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXIV
... cessibleAlone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer,Growing straight, out of man's reach, on the hill ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXIX
... o see and hear theeAnd breathe within thy shadow a new air,I do not think of thee-I am too near thee ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXV
... precipitate,While thine doth close above it, mediatingBetwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate ...
Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVI
... ee overcameMy soul with satisfaction of all wants:Because God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame ...
