In one of these poems the speaker says "I sank and quailed / As if God's future thundered in my past" after reading "My Letters! All dead paper, mute and white!", while in another one the speaker asse
In one of these poems the speaker says "I sank and quailed / As if God's future thundered in my past" after reading "My Letters! All dead paper, mute and white!", while in another one the speaker asserts "Nevermore . . . shall [I] command / the uses of my soul, nor lift my hand / in the sunshine as before." In the first one the speaker is grabbed "backward by the hair" by a "mystic shape", who tells the speaker he is "Not (*) Death, but Love", while that poem begins, "I thought once how Theocritus had sung / Of the sweet years". "To the level of everyday's / Most quiet need" and "to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach" are among the answers the speaker offers to the title question of this collection's best known poem, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways". For 10 points, name this collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
In one of these poems the speaker says "I sank and quailed /
{Sonnets from the Portuguese}