Prometheus Bound, and other poems/Sonnets from the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE.

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Sonnets (not listed in original)

• 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. (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways)
• Sonnet XLIII. (Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers)