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| Genre/Form: | Poetry genre |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; H W Preston |
| ISBN: | 0395184851 9780395184851 0395180120 9780395180129 |
| OCLC Number: | 967057 |
| Notes: | Edited by Harriet Waters Preston. Edition of 1900 published under title: The complete poetical works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. |
| Description: | xxii, 548 pages portrait 24 cm |
| Contents: | The seraphim: part the first -- part the second -- The poet's vow: pert the first, showing wherefore the vow was made -- part the second, showing to whom the vow was declared -- part the third, showing how the vow was kept -- part the fourth, showing how Rosiland fared by the keeping of the vow -- part the fifth, showing how the vow was broken -- The romaunt of Margret -- Isobel's child -- A romance of the ganges -- An island -- The deserted garden -- The soul's travelling -- Sounds -- Night and the merry man -- Earth and her praisers -- The Virgin Mary to the child Jesus -- To bettine -- Felicia Hemans -- Memory and hope -- The sleep Man and nature -- A sea-side walk -- The sea-mew -- The little friend -- My doves -- To Mary Russell Mitford -- The student -- The exile's return -- A song against singing -- Stanzas -- The young Queen -- Victoria's tears -- Vanities -- Bereavement -- Consolation -- A supplication for love, hymn I -- The mediator, hymn II -- The weeping savior, hymn III -- The measure, hymn IV -- Cowper's grave -- The weakest thing -- The pet-name -- 'Since without thee we do no good' -- Queen Annelida and false arcite -- The complaint of Annelida to false arcite -- Poems of 1844: A drama of Excile: Scene-The outer side of the gate of eden -- Scene-The extremity of the sword-glare -- Scene-a wild open country -- Sonnets: The soul's expression -- The seraph and poet -- On a portrait of wordsworth / B.R. Haydon -- Past and future -- Irreparableness -- Tears -- Grief -- Substitution -- Comfort -- Perplexed music -- Work -- Futurity -- The two sayings -- The look -- The meaning of the look -- A thought for a lonely death-bed -- Work and contemplation -- Pain in pleasure -- An apprehension -- Discontent -- Patience taught by nature -- Cheerfulness taught by reason -- Exaggeration -- Adequacy -- To George Sand -- a desire -- To George Sand -- a recognition -- The prisoner -- Insufficiency -- The romaunt of the page -- The lay of the brown rosary: First part -- Second part -- Third part -- Fourth part -- The mourning mother -- A valediction -- Lady Geraldine's courtship -- conclusion -- A vision of the poets -- Rhyme of the Duchess May -- The lady's 'yes' -- The poet and the bird -- The lost bower -- A child asleep -- The cry of the children -- Crowned and wedded -- Crowned and buried -- To flush, my dog -- The fourfold aspect -- A flower in a letter -- The cry of the human -- A lay of the early rose -- Bertha in the Lane -- That day -- Loved once -- A rhapsody of life's progress -- L.E.L.'s last question -- The house of clouds -- Catarina to camoens -- A portrait -- Sleeping and watching -- Wine of Cyprus -- The romance of the swan's nest -- Lessons from the gorse -- The dead pan -- Poems: of 1850: The runaway slave at pilgram's point -- Hecyor in the garden -- Sonnets: Flush or faunus -- Finite and infinite -- Two sketches -- Mountaineer and poet -- The poet -- Hiram powers' 'Greek slave' -- Life -- Love -- Heaven and earth -- The prospect -- Hugh Stuart Boyd: His blindness -- His death -- Legacies -- Confessions -- A Sabbath morning at sea -- The mask -- Calls on the heart -- Wisdom unapplied -- Human life's mystery -- A child's thought of God -- The claim -- A dead rose -- A woman's shortcomings -- A man's requirements -- A year spinning -- Change upon change -- A reed -- A child's grave at Florence -- Life and love -- A denial -- Proof and disproof -- Question and answer -- Inclusions -- Insufficiency -- Sonnets from the Portuguese -- Casa guidi windows: Part I -- Part II -- Aurora Leigh: Dedication to John Kenyon -- First book -- Second book -- Third book -- Fourth book -- Fifth book -- Sixth book -- Seventh book -- Eighth book -- Ninth book -- Poems before congress: Napoleon III, in Italy -- The dance -- A tale of villafranca -- A court lady -- An august voice -- Christmas gifts -- Italy and the world -- A curse for a nation: The curse -- Last poems: Little Mattie -- A false step -- Void in law -- Lord Walter's wife -- Bianca among the nightingales -- My Kate -- A song from the ragged school of London -- May's love -- Amy's cruelty -- My heart and I -- The best thing in the world -- Where's Agnes? -- De profundis -- A musical instrument -- First news from villafranca -- King Victor Emanuel entering Florence, April, 1860 -- The sword of Castruccio Castracani -- Summing up in Italy -- 'Died...' -- The forced recruit -- Garibaldi -- Only a curl -- A view across the Roman campagna -- The king's gift -- Parting lovers -- Mother and poet -- Nature's remorses -- The north and the south -- Translations: Prometheus bound -- A lament for Adonis, from the Greek of Bion -- Song of the rose, attributed to Sappho -- From Theocritus -- The Cyclops -- From Apileius -- Psyche gazing on cupid -- Psyche wafted by Zephyrus -- Psyche and pan -- Psyche propitiating Cerberus -- Psyche and the eagle -- Psyche and Cerberus -- Psyche and Proserpine -- Psyche and Venus -- Mercury carries psyche to Olympus -- Marriage of psyche and cupid -- From nonnus: How Bacchus finds Ariadne sleeping -- How Bacchus comforts Ariadne -- From Hesiod: Bacchus and Ariadne -- From Euripides: Aurora and Tithonus -- From Homer: Hector and Andromache -- The daughters of Pandarus -- Another version -- From Anacreon: Ode to the swallow -- From Heine: The last translation |
| Other Titles: | Poems |
Abstract:
Contains the poems of Mrs. Browning including "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh."
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