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To: tomkow6

Bonnet -that’s Bonnet.

Sonnet the most beautiful ever!

How Do I Love Thee?
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 level 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 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.


1,918 posted on 04/02/2008 11:00:41 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I soar- 'cause I can...)
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To: Soaring Feather
You're just trying to confuse me, ain't ya?

Well, IT AIN'T GONNA WORK! I'M A HIGH SCHOOL DROP-OUT, don't ya know!

1,920 posted on 04/02/2008 11:02:51 AM PDT by tomkow6 (...............CHANGE We Can Believe............My "VOICES"!....)
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To: tomkow6

Seems I am wrong about Sonnets not rhyming, we see it here in this Sonnet.

Sonnet I
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,
Who each one in a gracious hand appears
To bear a gift for mortals, old or young:
And, as I mused it in his antique tongue,
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me. Straightway I was ‘ware,
So weeping, how a mystic Shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair:
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove,—
‘Guess now who holds thee ? ‘—’ Death,’ I said. But, there,
The silver answer rang,—’ Not Death, but Love.’


1,921 posted on 04/02/2008 11:04:30 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (I soar- 'cause I can...)
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