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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose, I shall… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1850
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Topic
Being in loveLove
Statement type
Profession of love
Medium
SonnetPoem
Time
1850
Person
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Provenance
Current citation
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.
Original citation
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, sonnet 43.

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