Available Poems in Poems - Sonnets from the Portuguese (by Elizabeth Barrett Browning )

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Notes about this collection:

Despite the title of the collection, these poems are not in fact direct translations of specific Portuguese texts (cf. Translators, Interpreters, Mediators: Women Writers 1700-1900, edited by Gillian Dow, page 10 footnote 5).

• no. 1. I thought once how Theocritus had sung  (Gena Branscombe, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leon Dallin, Eleanor Everest Freer, Alfred de Kaiser, Libby Larsen, Louise Juliette Talma) GER
• no. 2. But only three in all God's universe  (Gena Branscombe, Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 3. Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Juliana Hall, Oskar Morawetz, Hubert du Plessis, Lajos Vass) GER
• no. 4. Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor  (Frederic Balazs, Celius Dougherty, Eleanor Everest Freer, Oskar Morawetz) GER
• no. 5. I lift my heavy heart up solemnly  (William Henry Bell, Eleanor Everest Freer, Alfred de Kaiser) GER
• no. 6. Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand  ([more than ten composers]) GER GER
• no. 7. The face of all the world is changed, I think  ([more than ten composers]) GER
• no. 8. What can I give thee back, O liberal  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Bernard James Naylor) GER
• no. 9. Can it be right to give what I can give?  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Bernard James Naylor) GER
• no. 10. Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Alfred de Kaiser, Bernard James Naylor, Carlos Surinach) GER
• no. 11. And therefore if to love can be desert  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Bernard James Naylor) GER
• no. 12. Indeed this very love which is my boast  (Louis Cheslock, Eleanor Everest Freer, Bernard James Naylor) GER
• no. 13. And wilt thou have me fashion into speech  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 14. If thou must love me, let it be for nought  ([more than ten composers]) GER
• no. 15. Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Robert William Jones, Ernest Campbell MacMillan) GER
• no. 16. And yet, because thou overcomest so  (Celius Dougherty, Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 17. My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 18. I never gave a lock of hair away  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 19. The soul's Rialto hath its merchandize  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 20. Beloved, my Beloved, when I think  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 21. Say over again, and yet once over again  ([more than ten composers]) GER
• no. 22. When our two souls stand up erect and strong  ([more than ten composers]) GER
• no. 23. Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Harold Herman Schaefer) GER
• no. 24. Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Hubert du Plessis) GER
• no. 25. A heavy heart, Belovëd, have I borne  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 26. I lived with visions for my company  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Michael Alexander Kimbell) GER
• no. 27. My own Belovèd, who hast lifted me  (Gena Branscombe, Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 28. My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!  (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Eleanor Everest Freer, Libby Larsen, Peter Tahourdin) GER
• no. 29. I think of thee! -- my thoughts do twine and bud  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 30. I see thine image through my tears to-night  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Peter Tahourdin) GER
• no. 31. Thou comest! all is said without a word  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Peter Tahourdin) GER
• no. 32. The first time that the sun rose on thine oath  (Louis Cheslock, Celius Dougherty, Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 33. Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Louise Juliette Talma) GER
• no. 34. With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Libby Larsen) GER
• no. 35. If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Bruno Oscar Klein, Libby Larsen) GER
• no. 36. When we met first and loved, I did not build  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 37. Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Juliana Hall) GER
• no. 38. First time he kissed me, he but only kissed  (Frederic Balazs, Florence Newell Barbour, Eleanor Everest Freer, Eduard von Hebra, Alfred de Kaiser, Lynn Steele) GER
• no. 39. Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace  (Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 40. Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Libby Larsen) GER
• no. 41. I thank all who have loved me in their hearts  (Eleanor Everest Freer, Juliana Hall) GER
• no. 42. My future will not copy fair my past  (Lois Butler, Eleanor Everest Freer) GER
• no. 43. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways  ([more than ten composers]) CHI GER
• no. 44. Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers  (Gary Carpenter, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Louis Cheslock, Celius Dougherty, Eleanor Everest Freer, Michael Alexander Kimbell, Libby Larsen, Peter Tahourdin) GER