Sonnet 43

• 43rd sonnet written by Browning
• Petrarchan poem
• "My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight"

  Shows that love can't be measured
• "Grace" "Right" "Praise"

  All imagery of pure love, similar to faith to God
• "Most quiet need"

  They will always love each other
• "I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;"


  She isn't forced to love him and might have a marriage through love rather than for gain
• "With my lost saints"

  She lost faith but found it again with her love
• "I love thee with the breath"

  She has never loved someone so much
• "Smiles, tears, of all my life!"

  she loves him with all that she is and will love him no matter how she is feeling
• "God choose"

  Faith and love bound together
• "I shall love thee better after death"

  They would die for the person they love