- 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.