Poem: How Do I Love Thee?

Listen to one of the most famous poems ever written. It’s from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry book Sonnets from the Portuguese. Soak in sonnet 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Check out my other poetry recordings on Insight Timer.
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Transcript

How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways.

By 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 levels 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.

Reviews

Beautiful.

This makes me realize to love and be thankful, but to love with all my heart.

Sincerely,
Ashlyn Fay