Flower imagery from a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese.” Artwork by Helen Maitland Armstrong and Margaret Armstrong. Published in New York City.

A famished pilgrim saved by miracle. Page 5 of a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet’s from the Portuguese. Helen Maitland Armstrong, illustrator. Collections of the Library of Congress. Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/sonnetsfromportu00brow/page/n5/mode/1up

To EDL these illustrations are dedicated. Page 8 of a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet’s from the Portuguese. Helen Maitland Armstrong, illustrator. Collections of the Library of Congress. Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/sonnetsfromportu00brow/page/n8/mode/1up

Love is strong as death. Page 12 of a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet’s from the Portuguese. Helen Maitland Armstrong, illustrator. Collections of the Library of Congress. Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/sonnetsfromportu00brow/page/n11/mode/1up

My spirit is thine, the better part of me. Page 21 of a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet’s from the Portuguese. Helen Maitland Armstrong, illustrator. Collections of the Library of Congress. Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/sonnetsfromportu00brow/page/n21/mode/1up

Keep violets for the spring and love for youth. Page 26 of a 1902 edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet’s from the Portuguese. Helen Maitland Armstrong, illustrator. Collections of the Library of Congress. Sloan Foundation, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/sonnetsfromportu00brow/page/n25/mode/1up

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