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 the 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 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.                                   Elizabeth Barett Browning * Home * Profile * Life's Delights * Pictures * Journal * Wisdom * * Faith * Arts & Lit * Books * Korean Food * Recipes * Links * "Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success" Henry Ford