Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Index with First Lines
Sonnet I - I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Sonnet II - But only three in all God’s universe
Sonnet III - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
Sonnet IV - Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor
Sonnet V - I lift my heavy heart up solemnly
Sonnet VI - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Sonnet VII - The face of all the world is changed, I think
Sonnet VIII - What can I give thee back, O liberal
Sonnet IX - Can it be right to give what I can give?
Sonnet X - Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
Sonnet XI - And therefore if to love can be desert
Sonnet XII - Indeed this very love which is my boast
Sonnet XIII - And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
Sonnet XIV - If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Sonnet XV - Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Sonnet XVI - And yet, because thou overcomest so
Sonnet XVII - My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
Sonnet XVIII - I never gave a lock of hair away
Sonnet XIX - The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandize
Sonnet XX - Beloved, my beloved, when I think
Sonnet XXI - Say over again, and yet once over again
Sonnet XXII - When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Sonnet XXIII - Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead
Sonnet XXIV - Let the world’s sharpness like a clasping knife
Sonnet XXV - A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne
Sonnet XXVI - I lived with visions for my company
Sonnet XXVII - My own Beloved, who hast lifted me
Sonnet XXVIII - My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
Sonnet XXIX - I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud
Sonnet XXX - I see thine image through my tears to-night
Sonnet XXXI - Thou comest! all is said without a word
Sonnet XXXII - The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
Sonnet XXXIII - Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear
Sonnet XXXIV - With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee
Sonnet XXXV - If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
Sonnet XXXVI - When we met first and loved, I did not build
Sonnet XXXVII - Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Sonnet XXXVIII - First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
Sonnet XXXIX - Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace
Sonnet XL - Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
Sonnet XLI - I thank all who have loved me in their hearts
Sonnet XLII - My future will not copy fair my past
Sonnet XLIII - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Sonnet XLIV - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers
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