How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

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 siht

For the ends of being and ideal grace

I love thee to the level of every days

Most quite need by the sun and candlelight

I love thee freely, as men strive for right

I love thee puerly as they turn from praise

I love thee with the possion put to use

In my grief and with my childhoods 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 live! And if god choose

I shall but  I love thee better after death

 When I was one and twenty

When I was one and twenty

I heard a wise man say

Give crowns, and pounds and guineas

But not your heart away

Give pearls away and rubies

But keep your fance free

But I was one and twenty

No use to talk to me

When I was one and twenty

I herad him say again

The heart out of the bosom

Was never  given in a vein

This paid with sighs a plenty

And sold for endless rue’

And I am two and twenty

And oh, this true true