Sonnets from the Portuguese


Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today. Elizabeth was initially hesitant to publish the poems, feeling that they were too personal. However, Robert insisted that they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them. To offer the couple some privacy, she decided that she might publish them under a title disguising the poems as translations of foreign sonnets. Therefore, the collection was first to be known as Sonnets from the Bosnian, until Robert suggested that she change their imaginary original language to Portuguese, probably after his nickname for her: "my little Portuguese." (Summary from Wikipedia) (0 hr 47 min)

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I thought once how Theocritus had sung 1:11 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
But only three in all God’s universe 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart 1:04 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Thou hast thy calling to some palace floor 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I lift my heavy heart up solemnly 1:08 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
The face of all the world is changed, I think 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
What can I give thee back, O liberal 1:07 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Can it be right to give what I can give? 1:04 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful enough 1:12 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
And therefore if to love can be desert 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Indeed this very love which is my boast 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
If thou must love me, let it be for nought 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear 1:03 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
And yet, because thou overcomest so 1:03 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes 1:09 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I never gave a lock of hair away 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandise 1:07 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Beloved, my beloved, when I think 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Say over again, and yet once over again 1:10 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
When our two souls stand up erect and strong 1:03 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead 1:04 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife 1:01 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
A heavy heart, Beloved, have I borne 1:02 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I lived with visions for my company 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
My own Beloved, who has lifted me 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white! 1:08 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I think of thee!–my thoughts do twine and bud 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I see thine image through my tears tonight 1:04 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Thou comest! All is said without a word 1:01 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
The first time that the sun rose on thine oath 1:03 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Yes, call me by my pet-name! Let me hear 1:03 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee 1:01 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange 1:00 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
When we first met and loved, I did not build 1:06 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Pardon, oh, pardon that my soul should make 1:01 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed 1:13 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace 1:04 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Oh yes! they love all through this world of ours! 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
I thank all who have loved me in their hearts 1:02 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
My future will not copy fair my past 1:05 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways 1:09 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri
Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers 1:09 Gelesen von Kirsten Ferreri