How Do I Love Thee Poems

1. How Do I Love Thee?
   Poet: 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.




2. Do I Love Thee
   Poet: Thomas E Spencer
   
   I ask my heart, "Do I love thee?"
   But how can I e'er forget
   The feelings of joy and rapture
   That thrilled me when first we met?
   The memory of each glad meeting
   Is treasured within my heart,
   Which has well-nigh ceased its beating,
   Since, in sorrow, we had to part.
   
   Each night, as I seek my pillow,
   I murmur a prayer for thee,
   I breathe thy name, as the sunbeams
   Flash red on the eastern sea.
   Thy spirit is still the beacon
   That guides me 'mid care and strife,
   And there 'twill remain for ever,
   My darling, my love, my life.




3. To Love ...
   by Leo F. Buscaglia
   
   A loving relationship is one in which
   The loved one is free to be himself
   To laugh with me, but never at me;
   To cry with me, but never because of me;
   To love life,
   To love himself,
   To love being loved.




4. Till Death Do Us Part
   Poet: David V. Bush
   
   O soul of my innermost being,
   Most tender and loving and true,
   You make life for me worth the living,
   And skies to seem ever more blue.
   
   The thought of your love brings me healing
   For all of life's sorrow and care;
   And faith that this love is eternal
   Gives courage all trials to bear.
   
   I know you will ever be true, dear.
   While time and eternity last;
   And safe in this blissful assurance,
   I smile at the griefs of the past.
   
   I know that you love and will love me,
   And ask for no blessing beside;
   When love is the crown of our being,
   Then heaven on earth doth abide.
   
   Your love is the richest of jewels
   That shine in life's bright coronet;
   And ever my heart shall sing praises.
   In rapture that thus we have met
   
   Your wonderful love, O my sweetheart,
   Brings joy to each hour of my life;
   It brightens each step of my journey -
   The love of my sweet, loyal wife.
   
   May angels surround and protect us,
   'Til all of earth's course we have run;
   That still we may live undivided.
   In life and death ever as one.