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

[Complete]

• no. 1. I thought once how Theocritus had sung  (Gena Branscombe, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Leon Dallin, Eleanor Everest Freer, Alfred de Kaiser, Libby Larsen) 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  (Celius Dougherty, Eleanor Everest Freer, William Arthur Goldsworthy, Fritz Bennicke Hart, Alfred de Kaiser, Michael Alexander Kimbell, Reginald Chauncey Robbins, Carlos Surinach, Healey Willan, Arthur Wills) 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) 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, 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