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Author

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

Title

Poems.

Imprint

London: Edward Moxon, Dover Street. 1844.

Call Number

WPRP 236

Physical Description:

2 v. 18 cm

Citation

Not in Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women; multiple copies in Worldcat.

Notes

Epigraph

"De patrie, de Dieu, des poétes, de l'âme/Qui s'élève en priant." – Victor Hugo

Contents

Volume I.

Dedication to my father.	iii
Preface	v
A drama of exile	1
Sonnets
The soul's expression	123
The seraph and poet	124
On a portrait of Wordsworth, by B. R. Haydon	125
Past and future	126
Irreparableness	127
Tears	128
Grief	129
Substitution	130
Comfort	131
Perplexed music	132
Work	133
Futurity	134
The two sayings	135
The look	136
The meaning of the look	137
A thought for a lonely death-bed	138
Work and contemplation	139
Pain in pleasure	140
An apprehension	141
Discontent	142
Patience taught by reason	143
Cheerfulness taught by reason	144
Exaggeration	145
Adequacy	146
To George Sand.—A desire	147
To George Sand.—A recognition	148
The prisoner	149
Insufficient	150
The romaunt of the page	151
The lay of the brown rosary	173
Second part	179
Third part	190
Fourth part	198
The Mournful mother, (of the dead blind)	202
A valediction	206
Lady Geraldine's courtship	209
The conclusion	246

Volume II.