This dog only, waited on,
Knowing that when light is gone,
Love remains for shining.
        (To Flush, My Dog, 46-48)

1. Aurora Leigh (excerpt)
2. The Cry of the Children
3. The Lady's Yes
4. Mother and Poet
5. A Musical Instrument
6. My Heart and I
7. Only a Curl
8. Past and Future
9. Sonnets from the Portuguese (complete)
   • I (I thought once how Theocritus had sung)
   • II (But only three in all God’s universe)
   • III (Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!)
   • IV (Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor)
   • V (I lift my heavy heart up solemnly)
   • VI (Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand)
   • VII (The face of all the world is changed, I think)
   • VIII (What can I give thee back, O liberal)
   • IX (Can it be right to give what I can give?)
   • X (Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed)
   • XI (And therefore if to love can be desert)
   • XII (Indeed this very love which is my boast)
   • XIII (And wilt thou have me fashion into speech)
   • XIV (If thou must love me, let it be for nought)
   • XV (Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear)
   • XVI (And yet, because thou overcomest so)
   • XVII (My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes)
   • XVIII (I never gave a lock of hair away)
   • XIX (The soul’s Rialto hath its merchandize)
   • XX (Belovèd, my Belovèd, when I think)
   • XXI (Say over again, and yet once over again)
   • XXII (When our two souls stand up erect and strong)
   • XXIII (Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead)
   • XXIV (Let the world’s sharpness like a clasping knife)
   • XXV (A heavy heart, Belovèd, have I borne)
   • XXVI (I lived with visions for my company)
   • XXVII (My own Belovèd, who hast lifted me)
   • XXVIII (My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!)
   • XXIX (I think of thee!—my thoughts do twine and bud)
   • XXX (I see thine image through my tears to-night)
   • XXXI (Thou comest! all is said without a word)
   • XXXII (The first time that the sun rose on thine oath)
   • XXXIII (Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear)
   • XXXIV (With the same heart, I said, I’ll answer thee)
   • XXXV (If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange)
   • XXXVI (When we met first and loved, I did not build)
   • XXXVII (Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make)
   • XXXVIII (First time he kissed me, he but only kissed)
   • XXXIX (Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace)
   • XL (Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!)
   • XLI (I thank all who have loved me in their hearts)
   • XLII (My future will not copy fair my past)
   • XLIII (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways)
   • XLIV (Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers)
10. Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
11. Sonnets from the Portuguese 6: Go from me
12. Sonnets from the Portuguese 7: The Face
13. Sonnets from the Portuguese 14: If Thou
14. Sonnets from the Portuguese 20: Beloved, my Beloved
15. Sonnets from the Portuguese 22: When our Two Souls
16. Sonnets from the Portuguese 26: I Lived with Visions
17. Sonnets from the Portuguese 28: My Letters!
18. Sonnets from the Portuguese 35: If I Leave all for thee
19. Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I Love thee?
20. To Flush, My Dog

Notes on Life and Works

• Stone, Marjorie. “Browning , Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Elizabeth
Family name: Browning
Maiden name: Barrett
Birth date: 6 March 1806
Death date: 29 June 1861
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Edward Moulton
          mother: Mary Graham
          husband: Robert Browning (poet) (from 12 September 1846)
Language: Greek
Literary period: Victorian
Residences
          Hope End, Herefordshire: 1806 to 1826
          Kelloe, Durham: 1806
          Sidmouth: 1826 to 1828
          London: 1828 to 1846
          Pisa: 1846 to 1847
          Florence: 1847 to 1861
Illness: Spine injury
Buried at: Protestant cemetery, Florence