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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 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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When You Are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And his his face amid a crowd of stars.
W. B. Yeats
I Do Not Love Thee
I do not love thee.....no! I do not love thee!
And yet when thou art absent I am sad
And envy even the bright blue sky above thee,
Whose quiet stars may see thee and be glad.
I do not love thee.....yet, I know not why,
Whate'er thou dost seems still well done, to me
And often in my solitude I sigh
That those I do love are not more like thee!
I do not love thee.....yet, when thou art gone,
I hate the sound ...though those who speak be near
Which breaks the lingering echo of the tone
Thy voice of music leaves upon my ear.
I do not love thee.... yet, thy speaking eyes,
With their deep, bright, and most expressive blue
Between me and the midnight heaven arise,
Oftener than and eyes I ever knew.
I know I do not love thee..... yet, alas!
Others will scarcely trust my candid heart
And oft I catch them smiling as they pass,
Because they see me gazing where thou art.
Carolyn Elizabeth Sarah Norton
"To be in love is to surpass oneself".
Oscar Wilde
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