How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barret Browning.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 

 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. ♥ ♥

 

♥I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.♥

♥I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,♥

♥ Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

 

 

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