Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
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“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need,by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,tears,of all my life.”
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
“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.”
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
“Whoso loves believes the impossible”
“The devil's most devilish when respectable”