How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) - Academy of American Poets 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 every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light 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
sonnet 43 - Academy of American Poets sonnet 43 -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 every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light 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
Sonnet V - Poems | Academy of American Poets Sonnet V - I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,I lift my heavy heart up solemnly, As once Electra her sepulchral urn, And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn The ashes at thy feet Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness If thy foot in scorn Could tread them out to darkness utterly, It might be well perhaps But
Sonnet VI - Poems | Academy of American Poets Go from me Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore— Thy touch upon the palm The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double What I
Sonnet | Academy of American Poets The sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries Traditionally, the sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization