Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806–1861

England, 1806–1861. One of the major voices of Victorian poetry. Her Sonnets from the Portuguese, written for her husband Robert Browning, are her best-loved work. Her work is in the public domain.
  • A Child's Thought of God (1850)
  • A Dead Rose (1850)
  • A Reed (1850)
  • A Year's Spinning (1850)
  • Beloved, My Beloved (1850)
  • Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers (1850)
  • Change upon Change (1850)
  • First Time He Kissed Me (1850)
  • Go From Me (1850)
  • How Do I Love Thee? (1850)
  • I Thought Once How Theocritus Had Sung (1850)
  • If Thou Must Love Me (1850)
  • Inclusions (1850)
  • Life and Love (1850)
  • Sonnet II — But only three in all God's universe (1850)
  • Sonnet X — Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed (1850)
  • Sonnet XIII — And wilt thou have me fashion into speech (1850)
  • Sonnet XV — Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear (1850)
  • Sonnet XVII — My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes (1850)
  • Sonnet XVIII — I never gave a lock of hair away (1850)
  • Sonnet XXI — Say over again, and yet once over again (1850)
  • When Our Two Souls Stand Up (1850)