Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1912 — Mrs. Browning's Sonnet. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Browning's Sonnet.

They say- Mrs. Browning showed her husband with much diffidence the sonnets she had written in celebration of her love. “Sonnets from the Portuguese," she called them. Incorporating in the title a love name be had for her —for he termed her the Portuguese because of her dark skin and eyes. Faulty, it may be confessed, these sonnets are—hardly finished here and there, one might be tempted to say. But they are as spontaneous as the song of morning birds, as essentially true as the word we speak at unexpected meeting.—Ella W. Peattie, in Harper’s Bazar. ; . : .