How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
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How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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This is one of the world’s most famous love poems. “How do I love thee…” (Sonnet 43) is featured in the collection Sonnets from the Portuguese, a sequence of 44 sonnets (published 1850) by Elizabeth Barret Browning, who was a prominent Victorian poet.
Though she suffered lifelong illness, she marr...
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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 candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the 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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Elizabeth-barrett-browning released How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) on Tue Jan 01 1850.