How Do I Love Thee?

[sandyRoe]

Google are marking the anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She had a way with words, hadn't she?

How Do I Love Thee?

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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[mazie]

I love this from the film Carve her name with Pride

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.
(Leo Marks)

[Canary42]

I agree Sandy, she rates alongside Shakespeare's Sonnets (18. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day").

[viv38]

Two lovely poems there. I don't know why, but mazie's made me fill up !!