HOW DO I LOVE you?
How do I love you? Let me count the ways.
I love you 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 you to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and and candle light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love you with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my chilhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,__I love you with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!__and, if GOD choose,
I shall but love you better after death.