How Do I Love Thee?

How would I cherish thee? Give me a chance to tally the ways.

I adore thee to the profundity and expansiveness and stature

My spirit can achieve, when getting a handle on of sight

For the finishes of Being and perfect Grace.

I cherish thee to the level of consistently's

Most calm need, by sun and candlelight.

I cherish thee unreservedly, as men make progress toward Right;

I cherish thee absolutely, as they turn from Praise.

I cherish with an enthusiasm put to utilize

In my old griefs, and with my adolescence's confidence.

I cherish thee with an adoration I appeared to lose

With my lost holy people,— I cherish thee with the breath,

Grins, tears, of all my life!— and, if God pick,

I should however cherish thee better after death.