“ TEATIME POETRY "

          

VALENTINE DAY is the second  largest holiday celebration  next to Christmas.  It is a time of brilliant symbolism, coloration and expressive  LOVE . 

Today, I am reading my favourite poem and would like to share a warm  teatime with you all. I hope that you  "feel the love" on  February 14th.

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an extraordinary, self taught woman, who became the first female poet ever to be considered for poet laureate ... though Tennyson was chosen to follow Wordsworth instead. 

Her, Sonnet 43  is the most famous love poem of all time. It was written during her courtship with Robert Browning.

                              " HOW DO I LOVE THEE”
                                             Written By:     
                               Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
                                           ( 1806 - 1861)

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

      I love thee to the depth and breath 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 a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood faith. 

I love thee with a love I seem 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. 

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  Love  and  poetry in a teacup.

“ HAPPY VALENTINE DAY “

Sharing With : Rose Chintz Cottage

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