My version of love poem "Sonnets from the Portuguese, No 43"

My version (I know) can't hold a candle to 
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet.

How much I love thee, I can't count the ways.

I love thee to the deepest, widest and highest 
my soul can speak, my feelings without limits.

If our relationship was to end, I'd be dimmest.
As I love thee to huge levels of happy blissfulness.
You are my yearning need, by day and night.

And I love thee as fiercely as men try to be right;
I love thee as chaste as men turn to Praise.
I love thee with emotionally charged passion 
used in my past sorrows and my childhood grace.

I love thee with a bond I thought was missing.
So if I lose virtue; I still love thee with joyful gasping,
tearful and smiling moments! And if God be willing
I shall love thee greater after life, everlasting.

this poem written by me, Lisa Sc.

poem "Longing" by Matthew Arnold, British poet

Longing by Matthew Arnold 

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times,
A messenger from radiant climes,
And smile on thy new world, and be
As kind to others as to me!

Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth,
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?

Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longing of the day.

Born	24 December 1822 Laleham, Middlesex, England
Died	15 April 1888 (aged 65) Liverpool, England
Occupation	Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools
Nationality	British
Period	Victorian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold  (page I found this image on)

*both image and poem, as far as I know, are in the public domain

A silly little Valentine Poem

Valentine!


As violets are blue


My love for you is true


And as roses are red


To lose you I dread




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