"How Do I Love Thee"

it's something like: "how do i love thee, let me count the ways." i've read it before and now i forgot about it! it's written by a famous poet (duh). yeah, i'd appreciate it. thanks!

This poem was written in the mid-1850's by the English poet, Elizabeth Barret Browning. It was one in a collection of sonnets she dedicated to her husband, Robert Browning, also a famous poet.

How Do I Love Thee?
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.

yes, pretty poem. thanks very much!

Shakespeare has his own set of sonnets if I remember from english class right~ Oops, time for me to go again