Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems Quotes

“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

“If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me?”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“The face of all the world is changed, I think,
Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul
Move still, oh, still, beside me...”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“Thou comest! all is said without a word.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“Say over again, and yet once over again,
That thou dost love me...-toll
The silver iterance!”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree...
Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood
I will not have my thoughts instead of thee
Who art dearer, better!”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems

“Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart!
Unlike our uses and our destinies...
Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine...
What hast though to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer...”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Love Poems