Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Referring to her olive-skinned complexion Robert Browning called his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, «his little Portuguese.» It is from this nickname that the title «Sonnets from the Portuguese» is derived. Sonnets from the Portuguese, a series of love poems from Elizabeth to her husband, is combined here with a collection of 60 of her other poems.