How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

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Title:     How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning [More Titles by Browning]

Sonnet XLIII.

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 everyday'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 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.

[The end]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways

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