"Португалските сонети" на Елизабет Барет Браунинг (1806-1861) са публикувани през 1850. Те разказват историята на връзката ѝ с поета Робърт Браунинг, и последвалата им сватба.
Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
Unlike our uses and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing. Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician. What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through ...