How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806 to 1861
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn praise.
I love thee with the passion put to
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
love thee with a love I seemed to lose
my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
shall but love thee better after death.