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The other greatest poem of all time...?

"How do I love thee"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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 sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's 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 life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'll tolerate your insolence no longer:

W.B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium"

Robert Frost, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

all too easy young jedi