Book: Sonnets from the Portuguese

• Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee?

  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

  13 lines, 28 comments
• Sonnet VIII: What Can I Give Thee Back

  What can I give thee back, O liberal
  And princely giver, who hast brought the gold

  14 lines
• Sonnet XIV: If Thou Must Love Me

  If thou must love me, let it be for nought
  Except for love's sake only. Do not say

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Sonnet XXIX: I Think of Thee

  I think of thee! — my thoughts do twine and bud
  About thee,as wild vines, about a tree,

  13 lines
• Sonnet XXIV: Let the World's Sharpness

  Let the world's sharpness like a clasping knife
  Shut in upon itself and do no harm

  14 lines
• Sonnet XIX: The Soul's Rialto

  The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise;
  I barter curl for curl upon that mart,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXX: I See Thine Image

  I see thine image through my tears to-night,
  And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How

  14 lines
• Sonnet XLI: I Thank All

  I thank all who have loved me in their hearts,
  With thanks and love from mine. Deep thanks to all

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXVI: When We Met First

  When we met first and loved, I did not build
  Upon the event with marble. Could it mean

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXV: A Heavy Heart, Belovèd

  A heavy heart, Belovèd, have I borne
  From year to year until I saw thy face,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XLII: My Future

  My future will not copy fair my past -
  I wrote that once; and thinking at my side

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXV: If I Leave All for Thee

  If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
  And be all to me? Shall I never miss

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XIII: And Wilt Thou Have Me

  And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
  The love I bear thee, finding words enough,

  14 lines, 3 comments
• Sonnet XVI: And Yet, Because Thou

  And yet, because thou overcomest so,
  Because thou art more noble and like a king,

  14 lines
• Sonnet VII: The Face of All the World

  The face of all the world is changed, I think,
  Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XXII: When Our Two Souls Stand Up

  When our two souls stand up erect and strong,
  Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Sonnet XVII: My Poet, Thou Canst Touch

  My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
  God set between his After and Before,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XXVII: My Dear Belovèd

  My dear Belovèd, who hast lifted me
  From this drear flat of earth where I was thrown,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXII: The First Time

  The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
  To love me, I looked forward to the moon

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XXXIII: Yes, Call Me by My Pet-Name!

  Yes, call me by my pet-name! let me hear
  The name I used to run at, when a child,

  13 lines
• Sonnet XXI: Say Over Again

  Say over again, and yet once over again,
  That thou dost love me. Though the word repeated

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXIX: Because Thou Hast the Power

  Because thou hast the power and own'st the grace
  To look through and behind this mask of me

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXVIII: First Time He Kissed Me

  First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
  The finger of this hand wherewith I write;

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XV: Accuse Me Not

  Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
  Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;

  14 lines
• Sonnet I: I Thought Once How Theocritus

  I thought once how Theocritus had sung
  Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XVIII: I Never Gave a Lock of Hair

  I never gave a lock of hair away
  To a man, dearest, except this to thee,

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet II: But Only Three in All God's Universe

  But only three in all God's universe
  Have heard this word thou has said,--Himself, beside

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XX: Belovèd, My Belovèd

  Belovèd, my Belovèd, when I think
  That thou wast in the world a year ago,

  14 lines
• Sonnet III: Unlike Are We, Unlike

  Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
  Unlike our uses and our destinies.

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXIII: Is It Indeed So?

  Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead,
  Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine?

  14 lines
• Sonnet IV: Thou Hast Thy Calling

  Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
  Most gracious singer of high poems! where

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XXVI: I Lived With Visions

  I lived with visions for my company
  Instead of men and women, years ago,

  14 lines
• Sonnet V: I Lift My Heavy Heart Up

  I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
  As once Electra her sepulchral urn,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXVIII: My Letters

  My letters — all dead paper, mute and white!
  And yet they seem alive and quivering

  13 lines
• Sonnet VI: Go From Me

  Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
  Henceforth in thy shadow. Nevermore

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXI: Thou Comest!

  Thou comest! all is said without a word.
  I sit beneath thy looks, as children do

  14 lines
• Sonnet IX: Can It Be Right to Give

  Can it be right to give what I can give?
  To let thee sit beneath the fall of tears

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXIV: With the Same Heart

  With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee
  As those, when thou shalt call me by my name--

  14 lines
• Sonnet X: Yet Love, Mere Love

  Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
  And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,

  14 lines, 2 comments
• Sonnet XXXVII: Pardon, Oh, Pardon

  Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,
  Of all that strong divineness which I know

  14 lines
• Sonnet XI: And Therefore If to Love

  And therefore if to love can be desert,
  I am not all unworthy. Cheeks as pale

  14 lines
• Sonnet XL: Oh, Yes! They Love

  Oh, yes! they love through all this world of ours!
  I will not gainsay love, called love forsooth,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XII: Indeed This Very Love

  Indeed this very love which is my boast,
  And which, when rising up from breast to brow,

  14 lines
• Sonnet XLIV: Belovèd, Thou Hast Brought Me

  Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers
  Plucked in the garden, all the summer through

  14 lines

• By me, right now

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