b. 1806d. 1861
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was passionate about progressive social causes, and about her love for her husband, poet Robert Browning. American composers who have been drawn to her passion include Ernst Bacon, Amy Marcy Beach, Eleanor Everest Freer, Norman Dello Joio, Libby Larsen, and Ned Rorem.
Photo: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Audio
“If I Leave All For Thee” and “How Do I Love Thee?” (from “Sonnets From the Portuguese”)
Anne Jennifer Nash (soprano) & Donna Loewy (piano)8:32
Related Information
Poetry Foundation
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gutenberg.org/files/37452/37452-h/37452-h.htmEncyclopedia Britannica
britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Barrett-BrowningSongs
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers1994Libby LarsenElizabeth Barrett Browning, H. D.Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers1994 · Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many FlowersLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi1984Dominick ArgentoElizabeth Barrett BrowningDomesticity1984 · Casa GuidiDominick ArgentoElizabeth Barrett BrowningEvidence of Things Not Seen1997Ned RoremW. H. Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Stephen Crane, Mark Doty, Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Jane Kenyon, Rudyard Kipling, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Paul Monette, William Penn, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman, John Woolman, William Butler YeatsFive Songs, Op. 441909Henry HadleyAnonymous, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, May Probyn, Clinton ScollardGo From Me2006 · Three Sonnets after the PortugueseAllen BringsGo From Me1994 · Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many FlowersLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningGrief2002 · AftermathNed RoremElizabeth Barrett BrowningHow Do I Love Thee?1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningHow Do I Love Thee?1997 · Evidence of Things Not SeenNed RoremElizabeth Barrett BrowningIf I Leave All For Thee1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningIf Thou Must Love Me2006 · Three Sonnets after the PortugueseAllen BringsElizabeth Barrett BrowningI Have a More Than Friend1893 · Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)Clara Kathleen RogersRobert BrowningI Thought Once How Theocritus…1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningMy Letters!1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningOh, Yes!1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningOut Of My Own Great Woe1893 · Six Songs, Op. 27 (Browning Songs)Clara Kathleen RogersRobert Browning1984 · Casa GuidiDominick ArgentoElizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets From the Portuguese1991Libby LarsenElizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnet XI1999 · Three Simple SongsAntonio Carlos DefeoElizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnet XXXV1999 · Three Simple SongsAntonio Carlos DefeoElizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnet XXIII1999 · Three Simple SongsAntonio Carlos DefeoElizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Death of Mr. Barrett1984 · Casa GuidiDominick ArgentoElizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Face of All the World Has Changed (op. 44, no. 1)1909 · Five Songs, Op. 44Henry HadleyElizabeth Barrett BrowningThe Italian Cook and the English Maid1984 · Casa GuidiDominick ArgentoElizabeth Barrett BrowningThree Simple Songs1999Antonio Carlos DefeoRobert BrowningThree Sonnets after the Portuguese2006Allen BringsElizabeth Barrett BrowningWhen Our Two Souls2006Allen BringsElizabeth Barrett BrowningWhen Soul is Joined to Soul (op. 62)1905Amy Marcy BeachElizabeth Barrett BrowningWith the Same Heart, I Said, I’ll Answer Thee1991 · Sonnets From the PortugueseLibby LarsenElizabeth Barrett Browning
Sheet Music
Aftermath
Ned Rorem
1. The Drum
2. Tygers of Wrath
3. The Fury of the Aerial Bombardment
4. The Park
5. Sonnet LXIV
6. On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
7. Grief
8. Remorse for Any Death
9. Losses
10. Then
2. Tygers of Wrath
3. The Fury of the Aerial Bombardment
4. The Park
5. Sonnet LXIV
6. On his Seventy-Fifth Birthday
7. Grief
8. Remorse for Any Death
9. Losses
10. Then
Five Songs, Op. 44
Henry Hadley
1. The Face of All the World Has Changed (op. 44, no. 1)
2. In Confidence (op. 44, no. 2)
3. I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar (op. 44, no. 3)
4. The Year's at the Spring (op. 44, no. 4)
5. Come What Will, You are Mine To-day" (op. 44, no. 5)
2. In Confidence (op. 44, no. 2)
3. I Heard a Maid With Her Guitar (op. 44, no. 3)
4. The Year's at the Spring (op. 44, no. 4)
5. Come What Will, You are Mine To-day" (op. 44, no. 5)