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All the great themes they shared are represented in this collection of their shorter poems - love, marriage, poetry, religion, England and Italy, the natural world - and the poems are accompanied by a selection from the marvellous letters they wrote to one another, especially in the years of their courtship.

Aurora Leigh is an eponymous epic novel/poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books. Through Book 5, Aurora narrates her past, from her childhood to the age of about 27, in Books 6-9, the narrative has caught up with her, and she reports events in diary form. Elizabeth Barrett Browning styled the poem "a novel in verse", and referred to it as "the most mature of my works, and the one into w...

This is a novel in verse that describes Aurora's successful rebellion against Victorian convention and her right to pursue her own career as a writer as well as be in love.

Excerpt from Aurora Leigh: A Poem in Nine Books Which burns and hurts not, - not a single bloom, Become aware and unafraid of love. Such good do mothers. Fathers love as well, Mine did, I know, - but still with heavier brains, And wills more consciously responsible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important ...

Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese My letters! All dead paper, - mute and white I think of thee - my thoughts do twine and bud I see thy image through my tears to-night Thou comest! All is said without a word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems1 The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Brown ing. Edited with Biographical Additions by Frederic G Kenyon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Excerpt from Romances, Lyrics, and Sonnets: From the Poetic Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Soul's Expression. With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right That music of my nature, day and night With dream and thought and feeling interwound, And inly answering all the senses round With octaves of a mystic depth and height Which step out grandly to the infinite From the dark edges of the sensual ...

Excerpt from From Queens' Gardens: Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Adelaide A. Procter, Christina Rossetti and Others "Ah you, you care for rhymes, So here be rhymes to pore on ... I've been told These are not idle, as so many are, But set hearts beating pure as well as fast." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This...

Excerpt from Casa Guidi Windows: A Poem This Poem contains the impressions of the writer upon events in Tuscany of winch she was a witness. "From a window, " the critic may demur. She bows to the objection in the very title of her work. No continuous narrative, nor exposition of political philosophy, is attempted by her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

Excerpt from Last Poems There is hardly such direct warrant for publishing the Translations which were only intended, many years ago, to accompany and explain certain Engravings after ancient Gems, in the projected work of a friend, by whose kindness they are now recovered: but as two of the original series (the 'adonis' of Bion, and Song to the Rose' from Achilles Tatius) have subsequently appeared, it is presumed that the remainder may not ...

Excerpt from The Religious Opinions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: As Expressed in Three Letters Addressed to Wm, Merry, Esq., J. P "Inasmuch, therefore, as all who 'search the scriptures, ' or hear the gospel preached, find themselves therein instructed how to 'repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance' (Acts 26, 20), we may be firmly assured, that there does not live one human being, so taught, who is shut out from the pale ...

Excerpt from Poems, Vol. 3 There is is one hill I see nearer In my vision of the rest, And a little wood seems clearer As it climbeth from the west, Sideway from the tree-locked valley, to the crest. Smell the wood is, green with hazels, And, completing the ascent, Where the wind blows and sun dazzles Thrills in leafy tremblement, Like a heart that, after climbing, beateth quickly through content. V, Not a step the wood advances O'er the ope...

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Tempest. A Fragment. "Mors crat ante oculos." - Lucan, lib. ix. The forest made my home - the voiceful streams My minstrel throng: the everlasting hills, - Which marry with the firmament, and cry Unto the brazen thunder, "Come away, Come from thy secret place, and try our strength, " - Enwrapp'd me with their solemn arms. Here, light Grew pale as darkness, scared by the sha...

Excerpt from Poems: With Memoir, Etc, Vol. 5 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in...

Excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 of 5 Luc. Hail Gabriel, the keeper of the gate! Now that the fruit is plucked, prince Gabriel, I hold that Eden is impregnable Under thy keeping. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art te...

Excerpt from Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Addressed to Richard Hengist Horne, Vol. 1: With Comments on ContemporariesI have been able to find refers to a con tribution of mine, written at her request to one Of Finden's Illustrated Annuals.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

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.

Excerpt from A Selection From the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: First Series Nine green years had scarcely brought me To my Childhood's haunted spring, I had life, like ¿owers and bees In betwixt the country trees, And the sun the pleasure taught me Which he teacheth everything. If the rain fell, there was sorrow, Little head leant on the pane, Little finger drawing down it The long trailing drops upon it, And the Rain, rain, come to...

Excerpt from Poems Before Congress These poems were written under the pressure of the events they indicate, after a residence in Italy of so many years, that the present triumph of great principles is heightened to the writer's feelings by the disastrous issue of the last movement, witnessed from "Casa Guidi Windows" in 1849. Yet, if the verses should appear to English readers too pungently rendered to admit of a patriotic respect to the Engl...

Excerpt from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. 2 of 2: Edited With Biographical Additions Since they first settled in Florence the Brownings had made no long or distant expeditions from their new home. Their summer excursions to Vallombrosa, Lucca, or Siena had been of the nature of short holidays, and had not taken them beyond the limits of Tuscany. N ow they had planned a far wider series of travels, which, beginning with Rome...