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This famous excerpt, read by an actor, comes from English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s collection Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). Browning based the sonnets on her love for her husband, the poet Robert Browning, and presented the collection to him as a gift. Elizabeth Browning wrote poems that reflected on humanitarian themes, love, religion, and Italy.
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