Sonnet 43

• “How do I love thee, let me count the ways”
• “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”
• “I love thee freely, as men strive for right”
• “I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs“
• “If God choose, I shall love thee better after death”
• The poem sonnet 43, written by Elizabeth Barret Browning, is in the form of a sonnet and is taken from a selection of love poems that Browning wrote for her husband.
• The poem greatly shows Browning‘s immense love for her husband through the use of repetition and religious language.