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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 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
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Saturday, May 12, 2001 |
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Saturday, May 12, 2001 |
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Gerard Scheuermann (10/17/2011 2:25:00 PM)
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Anyone who is truly in love with their spouse will take this as their own.
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Juan Olivarez (8/8/2011 7:44:00 AM)
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This is one of the best poems ever written, the expression of affection has nothing confusing or contradictory about it. It is merely and expression of love that will continue after death, if that be possible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning in my opinion, was a much better poet than her husband.
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Ramesh T A (8/8/2011 4:24:00 AM)
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Elizabeth loves Browning more than words can describe it and has better said in detail in this fine sonnet!
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Ramesh T A (8/8/2011 4:18:00 AM)
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Elizabeth loves Browning in all ways and more than in words she has detailed in this fine poem!
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Rekha Mandagere (8/8/2011 2:39:00 AM)
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Great write! Love is not just a passion but devotion and its boundary cannot be defined. Fantastic expression of love which is unique and eternal need of mankind.
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Pranab k Chakraborty (8/8/2011 12:52:00 AM)
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A quiet hard task poet took himself on his shoulder to define the measurment of loving passion. Very hard specially for a poet who naturally and hardly speaks truth. And when they speak truth that is also so contradictory common reader becomes confused. Obviously for this reason after a long try of illustrating the unit, poet utters the final and ultimate dialogue...I shall but love thee better after death....Great relief.
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Michelle Zarindast (8/6/2011 11:21:00 AM)
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Elizabeth Browning actually wrote this poem in response to a poem written to her first, by her husband, Robert Browning.
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Ruth Duff (8/8/2010 7:14:00 PM)
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Im sure this was the famous verse that was read in the movie Keeping Mum.... Im so sure of it.. if so I have been looking for this poem for agessss... so glad i tracked it down I love itttt xxx x
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