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Sonnets from the portuguese 21
Sonnets from the portuguese 21






I - your woman, a poet - can make you immortal with a song.This post follows on from last week’s analysis of the form of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 29, “I think of thee!” It’s such a great poem because there’s just so much to say about it. I - your woman, a poet - calm you in your nights.Īnd make you feel my god, to whom I can belong more than once. When I talk to you about the life that doesn’t love us. I - your woman, a poet - a thousand miles apart. When I say I have finished my day’s work, I need rest. Of strange doors opening and old ones closing.Īnd make you feel it fall on your window pane. Such a thing should be and I should live.Īre short and lame of breath and stumble,Īnd you surpass them though I know not why. Then your breathĪnd all the aura of your body's breathing The curves along your head, your ears, your hair. The movement of your arm, the steps you take, Web-master, 2002Īs the morning air brushes the window pane,Īnd how much time of all it takes to know My land and ocean, all that the earth can bringĪlpha and my omega, and all that was ever My autumn song, the church in which I pray, My seasons, summer, winter, my sweet spring, You are my sun and stars, my night, my day, My love eternal, endless, infinite, yet brief,Īs all loves are and hopes, though they endure. My world, my thoughts, my arms, my breath, my future, Would that I could give all and more, my life, That in the autumn of my years has grown,Ī final leaf where all the rest are gone.

sonnets from the portuguese 21

The lyre shape of your arms and shoulders, Only a small task for the determined lover. Readers will have to make the effort of reading and browsing until theyįind what they want. Then a fairly catholic selection from all places and The first two, which are intended to set the tone, follow some They are readily available on the main site. To remember that copyright restrictions apply.

sonnets from the portuguese 21

Here for private Valentine messages, but for all other uses it is Rather than its more tortured elements, since that is what is important Has been made to include mostly poems which show the joyous side of Means comprehensive or all inclusive - for how could it be? However an This selection of love poems offered is not by Love poems Various authors Provided originally for St.








Sonnets from the portuguese 21