Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Overview

Referring to her olive-skinned complexion Robert Browning called his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "his little Portuguese." It is from this nickname that the title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is derived. Sonnets from the Portuguese, a series of love poems from Elizabeth to her husband, is combined here with a collection of 60 of her other poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420925753
Publisher:	Digireads.com
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Pages:	104
Sales rank:	701,937
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

The Seraphim and other Poems; The Sleep; A Sea-Side Walk; Consolation; Poems; Grief; Cheerfulness Taught by Reason; To George Sand: A Desire; To George Sand: A Recognition; The Cry of the Children; To Flush, My Dog; The Cry of the Human; Two Sketches; Henrietta; Arabella Barrett; Hiriam Powers; Greek Slave; A Woman's Shortcomings; Life and Love; Sonnets from the Portuguese; Poems before Congress; A Curse for a Nation; Last Poems; A False Step; Amy's Cruelty; A Musical Instrument; The Forced Recruit; English poet; Victorian era; County Durham; John Kenyon; child labour legislation; Tennyson; Wordsworth; Robert Browning; Florence; Edgar Allan Poe; Emily Dickinson; How Do I Love Thee?; Aurora Leigh

Table of Contents

From The Seraphim and other Poems (1838)
The Sleep
A Sea-Side Walk
Consolation

From Poems (1844)
Grief
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
To George Sand: A Desire
To George Sand: A Recognition
The Cry of the Children (1843)
To Flush, My Dog (1843)
The Cry of the Human (1842)

From Poems (1850)
Two Sketches [Henrietta and Arabella Barrett, the poet's sisters] (1847)
Hiriam Powers' 'Greek Slave'
A Woman's Shortcomings (1846)
Life and Love

Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

From Poems before Congress (1860)
A Curse for a Nation

From Last Poems (1862)
A False Step
Amy's Cruelty
A Musical Instrument (1860)
The Forced Recruit (1860)

Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines