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Excerpt from Napoleon III in Italy: And Other Poems 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 re...

Excerpt from Poetical Works, Vol. 2 of 6 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 the...

Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. 3 of 6 When last before her peoples face her own fair face she bent, Within the meek projection of that shade she was content To erase the child-smile from her lips, which seemed as if it might Be still kept holy from the world to childhood still in sight - To erase it with a solemn vow, a princely vow - to rule, A priestly vow - to rule by grace of God the pitiful, A very...

Excerpt from Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is. 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 forma...

Excerpt from Lady Geraldine's Courtship 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 the ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Famed series of 44 love poems written to the poet's husband, Robert Browning, plus a selection of poems dealing with religion, art, social problems, and political events. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominant presence in the work however, is the narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question, " and society.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 43rd sonnet from Sonnets from the Portuguese, published in 1850, famously begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." The second title in our picture book poem series, How Do I Love Thee? illustrated by Mati Rose McDonough, who illustrated I Carry Your Heart With Me, by E.E. Cummings, follows a father and a son on a fishing trip and captures all of the emotions of Browning's beloved poem.

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Augmented with a generous selection of the marvelous letters Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to each other, this collection presents their work in the chronological context of their lives. Ribbon marker.

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Excerpt from Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories: With an Inedited AutobiographyTo be one's own chronicler is a task generally dic tated by extreme vanity and often by that instinc tive feeling which prompts the soul of Man to snatch the records of his life from the dull and misty ocean of oblivion Man is naturally enamoured of immortality, and tho the brazen trump of fame echoes his deeds when he sleeps when the cold sod weighs on his corr...

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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With Two Prose EssaysHappily it is not now, as it was in the days of Pope, who was so early in actual danger of thinking himself 'the greatest genius of the age.' Now, even the female may drive her Pegasus through the realms of Parnassus, without being saluted with the most equivocal of all appellations, a learned lady without being celebrated by her friends as a Sappho, or traduce...

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