Celebrating Love with Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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S2 E5: Celebrating Love with Elizabeth Barrett Browning


How Do I Love Thee, Sonnet 43 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 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.



Photography by Rebecca Budd

Poetry Recitation by Rebecca Budd

Music by Howard Harper-Barnes “Whisper of Pines” #EpidemicSoung


https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/9v0gTSCDUy/

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