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Prometheus Bound, and other poems

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This is the 1851 American edition of this book. It includes Browning's retranslation of Aeschylus' play Prometheus Bound, "Sonnets from the Portuguese", "Casa Guidi Windows", and a selection of sonnets and other poems.

For the 1833 edition of this book, see Prometheus Bound (Browning, 1833).
2039434Prometheus Bound, and other poems1851Elizabeth Barrett Browning

POEMS

OF

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.

PROMETHEUS BOUND,


AND OTHER POEMS;


INCLUDING


Sonnets from the Portuguese,


CASA GUIDI WINDOWS,

ETC.


BY
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING.

NEW YORK:
C. S. FRANCIS & CO., 252 BROADWAY.
BOSTON:
J. H. FRANCIS, 128 WASHINGTON STREET.
M DCCC LI.

CONTENTS.


PAGE
Prometheus Bound 9
A Lament for Adonis 55
Sonnets 63
Flush or Faunus 63
Finite and Infinite 64
Two Sketches 64
Mountaineer and Poet 66
The Poet 66
Hiram Powers' Greek Slave 67
Life 68
Love 68
Heaven and Earth 69
The Prospect 70
Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Blindness 70
Hugh Stuart Boyd. His Death 71
Hugh Stuart Boyd. Legacies 72
Future and Past 73
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point 74
Hector in the Garden 85
Confessions 90
A Sabbath Morning at Sea 95
The Mask 99
Calls on the Heart 101
Wisdom Unapplied 105
Memory and Hope 109
Human Life's Misery 112
A Child's Thought of God 115
The Claim 116
Life and Love 118
Inclusions 119
Insufficiency 120
Song of the Rose 121
A Dead Rose 122
A Woman's Shortcomings 124
A Man's Requirements 126
A Year's Spinning 129
Change upon Change 131
That Day 132
A Reed 134
A Child's Grave at Florence 135
Sonnets from the Portuguese 142
Casa Guidi Windows 165


This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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