Tuesday, March 24, 2009

One of lifetime favorite poems

When you're truly and deeply in love with someone, you might like it: 

How do I love thee?  
by Elizabeth Barrett 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 everyday'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 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.

2 comments:

Ian said...

And Elizabeth Barrett Browning certainly knew how to love.

UNKNOWN said...

Definitely so. I also like some of her other poems. They are absolutely stunning.