Elizabeth Barrett Browning

English Victorian poet, 1806–1861. 1 explained quote.

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850

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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnets from the Portuguese, Sonnet 43 · 1850 · Poet

The poet lists the ways she loves her husband: as deeply as her soul can reach, in everyday needs, freely, purely, with all her life, and, if God allows, even more after death.

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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most famous poets of her day, better known at first than her husband, Robert Browning. Chronically ill and kept at home by a strict father, she married Browning in secret in 1846 and moved to Italy. Her Sonnets from the Portuguese record their courtship.