Poetry Codex

Victorian

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806–1861

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was one of the most celebrated English poets of her day, an invalid for much of her youth who eloped to Italy with fellow poet Robert Browning in 1846.

Her Sonnets from the Portuguese, written to Robert during their courtship, remain her best-loved work, alongside socially engaged narrative poems on slavery, child labour, and women's lives.

Major Works (1)

  1. Aurora Leigh — Verse novel, 1857

Poems (398)

  1. I
  2. II
  3. III
  4. IV
  5. V
  6. VI
  7. VII
  8. VIII
  9. IX
  10. X
  11. XI
  12. XII
  13. XIII
  14. XIV
  15. XV
  16. XVI
  17. XVII
  18. XVIII
  19. XIX
  20. XX
  21. XXI
  22. XXII
  23. XXIII
  24. XXIV
  25. XXV
  26. XXVI
  27. XXVII
  28. XXVIII
  29. XXIX
  30. XXX
  31. XXXI
  32. XXXII
  33. XXXIII
  34. XXXIV
  35. XXXV
  36. XXXVI
  37. XXXVII
  38. XXXVIII
  39. XXXIX
  40. XL
  41. XLI
  42. XLII
  43. XLIII
  44. XLIV
  45. III
  46. IV
  47. V.
  48. VI
  49. VII
  50. VIII
  51. IX
  52. X.
  53. XI
  54. XII
  55. XIV
  56. XV
  57. XVI
  58. XVII
  59. XVIII
  60. XIX
  61. An August Voice
  62. Christmas Gifts
  63. XX
  64. XXI
  65. XXII
  66. XXIII
  67. XXIV
  68. XXV
  69. XXVI
  70. XXVII
  71. XXVIII
  72. Prologue
  73. I.
  74. II
  75. XIII
  76. XXIX
  77. XXX
  78. XXXI
  79. XXXII
  80. May's Love
  81. The Best Thing in the World
  82. The Romaunt of Margret
  83. A Romance of the Ganges
  84. XIV
  85. XVII
  86. XXIV
  87. Isobel's Child
  88. IX
  89. X.
  90. XVIII
  91. XIX
  92. XX
  93. XXII
  94. XXV
  95. XXVI
  96. XXVII
  97. XXVIII
  98. XXIX
  99. XXX
  100. XXXI
  101. XXXII
  102. XXXIII
  103. XXXVII
  104. XII
  105. XXXV
  106. XXXIX
  107. XLII
  108. XLIV
  109. XV
  110. XVI
  111. XXI
  112. XXIII
  113. LXIII
  114. LXXIV
  115. XCIII
  116. XCIV
  117. XCV
  118. XXXVIII
  119. XL
  120. XLI
  121. XLIII
  122. XLV
  123. XLVI
  124. XLVII
  125. XLVIII
  126. XLIX
  127. L.
  128. LI
  129. LII
  130. LIII
  131. LIV
  132. LV
  133. LVI
  134. LVII
  135. LVIII
  136. LIX
  137. LX
  138. LXI
  139. LXII
  140. LXIV
  141. LXV
  142. LXVI
  143. LXVII
  144. LXVIII
  145. LXIX
  146. LXX
  147. LXXI
  148. LXXII
  149. LXXIII
  150. LXXV
  151. LXXVI
  152. LXXVII
  153. LXXVIII
  154. LXXIX
  155. LXXX
  156. LXXXI
  157. LXXXII
  158. LXXXIII
  159. LXXXIV
  160. LXXXV
  161. LXXXVI
  162. LXXXVII
  163. LXXXVIII
  164. LXXXIX
  165. XC
  166. XCI
  167. XCII
  168. XXXIV
  169. XXXVI
  170. The Cry of the Children
  171. XIII
  172. I.
  173. III
  174. IV
  175. Night
  176. The Merry Man
  177. V.
  178. VIII
  179. VI
  180. XI
  181. An Island
  182. II
  183. VII
  184. Man and Nature
  185. The Sea-mew
  186. A Drama of Exile
  187. LUCIFER, _alone
  188. Chorus of Eden Spirits
  189. Chorus of Invisible Angels
  190. Song of the Morning Star to Lucifer
  191. The Seraphim
  192. Part the First
  193. Part the Second
  194. IV
  195. Prometheus Bound
  196. II
  197. III
  198. V.
  199. VII
  200. VIII
  201. A Vision of Poets
  202. Conclusion
  203. The Poet's Vow
  204. XI
  205. XVII
  206. XIII
  207. XIV
  208. XV
  209. XVI
  210. XVIII
  211. XIX
  212. XX
  213. XXI
  214. XXII
  215. I.
  216. VI
  217. XII
  218. The Words of Rosalind's Scroll
  219. IX
  220. X.
  221. The Dead Pan
  222. A Lay of the Early Rose
  223. A Rhapsody of Life's Progress
  224. Futurity
  225. Perplexed Music
  226. The Soul's Expression
  227. A Child Asleep
  228. A Flower in a Letter
  229. A Portrait
  230. A Thought for a Lonely Death-Bed
  231. A Valediction
  232. Adequacy
  233. An Apprehension
  234. Bertha in the Lane
  235. Catarina to Camoens
  236. Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
  237. Comfort
  238. Crowned and Buried
  239. Crowned and Wedded
  240. Discontent
  241. Exaggeration
  242. Grief
  243. Insufficiency
  244. Irreparableness
  245. L. E. L.'s Last Question
  246. Lady Geraldine's Courtship
  247. Lessons from the Gorse
  248. Loved Once
  249. On a Portrait of Wordsworth, by B. R. Haydon
  250. Pain in Pleasure
  251. Past and Future
  252. Patience Taught by Nature
  253. Rhyme of the Duchess May
  254. Sleeping and Watching
  255. Substitution
  256. Tears
  257. That Day
  258. The Cry of the Human
  259. The Fourfold Aspect
  260. The House of Clouds
  261. The Lady's Yes
  262. The Lay of the Brown Rosary
  263. The Look
  264. The Lost Bower
  265. The Meaning of the Look
  266. The Mournful Mother (of the dead blind)
  267. The Poet and the Bird
  268. The Prisoner
  269. The Romance of the Swan's Nest
  270. The Romaunt of the Page
  271. The Seraph and Poet
  272. The Two Sayings
  273. To Flush, my Dog
  274. To George Sand: A Desire
  275. To George Sand: A Recognition
  276. Wine of Cyprus
  277. Work
  278. Work and Contemplation
  279. A Child's Grave at Florence
  280. A Child's Thought of God
  281. A Dead Rose
  282. A Lament for Adonis
  283. A Man's Requirements
  284. A Reed
  285. A Sabbath Morning at Sea
  286. A Woman's Shortcomings
  287. A Year's Spinning
  288. Calls on the Heart
  289. Change upon Change
  290. Confessions
  291. Hector in the Garden
  292. Human Life's Misery
  293. Inclusions
  294. Insufficiency
  295. Life and Love
  296. Memory and Hope
  297. The Claim
  298. The Mask
  299. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
  300. Wisdom Unapplied
  301. Song of the Rose
  302. Flush or Faunus
  303. Finite and Infinite
  304. Two Sketches
  305. Mountaineer and Poet
  306. The Poet
  307. Hiram Powers' Greek Slave
  308. Life
  309. Love
  310. Heaven and Earth
  311. The Prospect
  312. Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Blindness
  313. Hugh Stuart Boyd: His Death, 1848
  314. Hugh Stuart Boyd: Legacies
  315. Casa Guidi Windows, Part I
  316. Casa Guidi Windows, Part II
  317. Cowper's Grave
  318. Praise of Earth
  319. A Musical Instrument
  320. My Kate
  321. The North and the South
  322. From 'The Soul's Travelling'
  323. From 'Aurora Leigh'
  324. A Denial
  325. Proof and Disproof
  326. Question and Answer
  327. Napoleon III. in Italy
  328. The Dance
  329. A Tale of Villafranca
  330. A Court Lady
  331. Italy and the World
  332. A Curse for a Nation
  333. Little Mattie
  334. A False Step
  335. Void in Law
  336. Lord Walter's Wife
  337. Bianca among the Nightingales
  338. A Song for the Ragged School of London
  339. Amy's Cruelty
  340. My Heart and I
  341. Where's Agnes?
  342. Earth and Her Praisers
  343. The Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus
  344. The Soul's Travelling
  345. To Bettine, the Child-Friend of Goethe
  346. A Sea-side Walk
  347. Felicia Hemans to L. E. L.
  348. The Deserted Garden
  349. My Doves
  350. Sounds
  351. Bereavement
  352. Consolation
  353. To Mary Russell Mitford in Her Garden
  354. A Song Against Singing
  355. The Exile's Return
  356. The Sleep
  357. The Measure
  358. The Weakest Thing
  359. The Pet-Name
  360. De Profundis
  361. First News from Villafranca
  362. King Victor Emanuel Entering Florence, April 1860
  363. The Sword of Castruccio Castracani
  364. Summing Up in Italy
  365. "Died ..."
  366. The Forced Recruit
  367. Garibaldi
  368. Only a Curl
  369. A View across the Roman Campagna
  370. The King's Gift
  371. Parting Lovers
  372. Mother and Poet
  373. Nature's Remorses
  374. The Cyclops
  375. Psyche Gazing on Cupid
  376. Psyche Wafted by Zephyrus
  377. Psyche and Pan
  378. Psyche Propitiating Ceres
  379. Psyche and the Eagle
  380. Psyche and Cerberus
  381. Psyche and Proserpine
  382. Psyche and Venus
  383. Mercury Carries Psyche to Olympus
  384. Marriage of Psyche and Cupid
  385. How Bacchus Finds Ariadne Sleeping
  386. How Bacchus Comforts Ariadne
  387. Bacchus and Ariadne
  388. Aurora and Tithonus
  389. Hector and Andromache
  390. The Daughters of Pandarus
  391. The Daughters of Pandarus (Another Version)
  392. Ode to the Swallow
  393. Out of my own great woe
  394. Art thou indeed so adverse?
  395. My child, we were two children
  396. Thou lovest me not, thou lovest me not!
  397. My own sweet Love, if thou in the grave
  398. The years they come and go

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