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Friday, May 14, 2010

Poetry Friday - The Anniversary Edition


In honor of our sixteenth anniversary today, I'm going to share a love poem for Poetry Friday.

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 everyday'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 three with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love three 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.



And just to show that after sixteen years, we're still on the same wavelength, I gave him a new desktop computer for an anniversary gift and he gave me a new laptop! (Our kids are really happy about that, they get use of the old ones now.)

The Poetry Friday Round-Up is at Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup. Check it out.

6 comments:

Sarah Rettger said...

How sweet! Congratulations.

tanita✿davis said...

Awww, you guys. How cute you are. Blessings of another happy sixteen years to you.

christine M said...

Thanks, Sarah and Tanita!

Laura said...

You have a modern day "Gift of the Magi" story.

Congratulations!

Laura Evans
all things poetry

christine M said...

Laura, luckily the gifts are useful to both of us - unlike in the Gifts of the Magi!

laurasalas said...

Beautiful--and happy anniversary!