The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 1

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF MRS. BROWNING'S POEMS.

The collection here offered to the public consists of Poems which have been written in the interim between the period of the publication of my "Seraphim" and the present; variously coloured, or perhaps shadowed, by the life of which they are the natural expression,--and, with the exception of a few...