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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Name: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Read by Kirsten Ferreri · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording

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Chapters

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01 - I thought once how Theocritus had sung (1:12)
02 - But only three in all God's universe (1:06)
03 - Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart (1:04)
04 - Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor (1:06)
05 - I lift my heavy heart up solemnly (1:08)
06 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (1:06)
07 - The face of all the world is changed, I think (1:06)
08 - What can I give thee back, O liberal (1:07)
09 - Can it be right to give what I can give? (1:04)
10 - Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful enough (1:12)
11 - And therefore if to love can be desert (1:05)
12 - Indeed this very love which is my boast (1:07)
13 - And wilt thou have me fashion into speech (1:06)
14 - If thou must love me, let it be for nought (1:06)
15 - Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear (1:03)
16 - And yet, because thou overcomest so (1:03)
17 - My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes (1:09)
18 - I never gave a lock of hair away (1:06)
19 - The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise (1:07)
20 - Beloved, my beloved, when I think (1:05)
21 - Say over again, and yet once over again (1:10)
22 - When our two souls stand up erect and strong (1:04)
23 - Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead (1:04)
24 - Let the world's sharpness, like a clasping knife (1:01)
25 - A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne (1:03)
26 - I lived with visions for my company (1:05)
27 - My own Beloved, who has lifted me (1:06)
28 - My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! (1:08)
29 - I think of thee!--my thoughts do twine and bud (1:05)
30 - I see thine image through my tears tonight (1:04)
31 - Thou comest! All is said without a word (1:01)
32 - The first time that the sun rose on thine oath (1:03)
33 - Yes, call me by my pet-name! Let me hear (1:03)
34 - With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee (1:01)
35 - If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange (1:00)
36 - When we first met and loved, I did not build (1:06)
37 - Pardon, oh, pardon that my soul should make (1:01)
38 - First time he kissed me, he but only kissed (1:13)
39 - Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace (1:04)
40 - Oh yes! they love all through this world of ours! (1:05)
41 - I thank all who have loved me in their hearts (1:02)
42 - My future will not copy fair my past (1:05)
43 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. (1:09)
44 - Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers (1:09)

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