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I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach

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Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

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His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told ...more

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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am your...more

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And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,Between our face...more

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of b...more

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Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

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And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain

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I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one in a gracious hand appearsTo bear a gift for mort...more

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My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous hands which loose the stringAnd let them drop dow...more

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Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.