This collection includes poems with the opening lines "Yes, call me by my pet-name" and "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" while its best-known poem talks about performing an action "as men strive for Right" and "as they turn from Praise."
One poem in this collection ends with "a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port" who honors his sea-god with "a sculptured porpoise." In that poem the speaker begs, "pardon, oh pardon" for an inadequate soul that makes an "image only so / Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break." One poem is a meditation on the poet's earlier line "My future will not copy fair my past," while in another the speaker requests "let me hear / The name I used to run at." This collection includes poems with the opening lines "Yes, call me by my pet-name" and "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" while its best-known poem talks about performing an action "as men strive for Right" and "as they turn from Praise." For 10 points, name this poetry collection featuring "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways," written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
One poem in this collection ends with "a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port" who honors his sea-god with "a sculptured porpoise.
Sonnets from the Portuguese