Sonnets from the Portuguese


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