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!
(Sonnet 43 - How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways)
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
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For frequent tears have run
The colors from my life, and left so dead
And pale a stuff, it were not fitly done
To give the same as pillow to thy head.
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Death forerunneth Love to win 'Sweetest eyes were ever seen.'
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And, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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