Growing Love - How Do I Love Thee 8x10 Print

How Do I Love Thee
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 every day’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 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.