How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
b'Elizabeth Barrett Browning\\nread by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nHow Do I Love Thee?\\nby Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806\\u20131861)\\n\\nHow do I love thee? Let me count the ways. \\nI love thee to the depth and breadth and height \\nMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sight \\nFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace. \\nI love thee to the level of everyday\\u2019s \\nMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light. \\nI love thee freely, as men strive for Right; \\nI love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. \\nI love thee with the passion put to use \\nIn my old griefs, and with my childhood\\u2019s faith. \\nI love thee with a love I seemed to lose \\nWith my lost saints,\\u2014I love thee with the breath, \\nSmiles, tears, of all my life!\\u2014and, if God choose, \\nI shall but love thee better after death.'