Sonnets from the Portugese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Overview

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781514211151
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/08/2015
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Illuminated by the Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love Letters

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By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ecco Press

Copyright © 1996 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0880014512

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Chapter One

Sonnet One

I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me. Straightway I was 'ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair;
And a voice said in mastery while I strove,
'Guess now who holds thee?' - 'Death!' I said, But there,
The silver answer rang. . . Not Death, but Love.'

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