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Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems QUOTES

Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me? "

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

3 " 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 Poems

4 " 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 Poems

5 " Thou comest! all is said without a word. "

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems

6 " 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 Poems

7 " 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 Poems

8 " 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 Poems