Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me? Shall I never miss
Home-talk and...

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

A heavy heart, Belovë d, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorro...

I TELL you, hopeless grief is passionless--
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught...

AND, O beloved voices, upon which
Ours passionately call, because erelong
Ye brake off in th...

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

I YOU'LL take back your Grand Duke?
I made the treaty upon it.
Just venture a quiet rebuke;
...

IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know
Concentred in one heart their gentleness,
That stil...

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

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

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

NOW by the verdure on thy thousand hills,
Beloved England, --doth the earth appear
Quite noble...