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Sonnets from the Portuguese

Name: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, available in Auren as a public-domain ebook in the United States.

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I thought once how Theocritus had sung

Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,

Who each one in a gracious hand appears

To bear a gift for mortals, old or young;