Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poetry, by popularity

• Only a Curl.

  I.
  FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land

  84 lines
• The North And The South

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  "Now give us lands where the olives grow,"

  40 lines
• Iii

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

  14 lines
• To George Sand: A Recognition

  TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny
  The woman's nature with a manly scorn

  15 lines
• To

  Mine is a wayward lay;
  And, if its echoing rhymes I try to string,

  32 lines
• The Two Sayings

  Two savings of the Holy Scriptures beat
  Like pulses in the Church's brow and breast;

  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
• To George Sand: A Desire

  THOU large-brained woman and large-hearted man,
  Self-called George Sand ! whose soul, amid the lions

  14 lines
• Mother and Poet

  I.
  Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east,

  121 lines
• Sonnet XXVI: I Lived With Visions

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

  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
• The Seraph and the Poet

  THE seraph sings before the manifest
  God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,

  15 lines
• The Meaning Of The Look

  I think that look of Christ might seem to say--
  'Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXI: Thou Comest!

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

  14 lines
• The Lady's Yes.

  " Yes !" I answered you last night ;
  " No !" this morning, Sir, I say !

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Sonnet XVI: And Yet, Because Thou

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

  14 lines
• Past and Future.

  MY future will not copy fair my past
  On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done,

  14 lines
• Sonnet VI: Go From Me

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

  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
• Work

  WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil;
  Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines

  14 lines
• Sonnet XXXVII: Pardon, Oh, Pardon

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

  14 lines
• The Look

  The Saviour looked on Peter. Ay, no word,
  No gesture of reproach; the Heavens serene

  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 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 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 XXVII: My Dear Belovèd

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

  14 lines
• 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 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 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 III: Unlike Are We, Unlike

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

  14 lines

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