HOW DO I LOVE THEE?

Name: How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese) - How Do I Love Thee?
Author: Elizabeth 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 everyday’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.

Related Resources

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Victorian Period

Download Options

Title: How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese)

Select an option:

*Note: A download may not start for up to 60 seconds.

Email Options

Title: How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese)

Select an option:

Email addres:

*Note: It may take up to 60 seconds for for the email to be generated.

Chicago: Elizabeth Browning, How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese) Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3YD3HZYMI23D5T3.

MLA: Browning, Elizabeth. How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese), Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3YD3HZYMI23D5T3.

Harvard: Browning, E, How Do I Love Thee?: (From Sonnets from the Portuguese). Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3YD3HZYMI23D5T3.