"How Do I Love Thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lizzie was quite a corker, clever too. Her mysterious illness was probably just the laudanum. (opium) Robert Browning got lucky when he wrote her a fan letter.

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[xarahlicious]

The poem is beautiful. I dont like how it was read. So fast. No emotions at all

[SpokenVerse]

@xarahlicious If it isn't read at a conversational pace, then it loses structure and the metre and rhymes don't work. Whern poems meana lot to people, they subvocalise them as slow and full of meaning. But reading them like that doesn't work. If you think it does, then you can read it yourself and post the reading. Otherwise we'll never know how it sounds to you. All the best, Tom

[tahnyay]

you're a missing a "thee" in the line "I love THEE with a passion put to use"

[SpokenVerse]

Three versions of the line have been published. There's the one you quote and the one I quote - but we're both wrong.

The original 1850 version of "Sonnets from the Portuguese" gives the line as "I love THEE with THE passion put to use";

The most reliable and original source I can find is Great Books and Classics.

Thanks from bringing this to my attention though. I'll check my sources more thoroughly in future.

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[sweeneysdominatrix]

I love listening to your voice. The collection you have recorded includes a lot of my favourites and I enjoy listening to them read as they should be. I may not agree with all your opinions on the poems but I can respect them. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[The1983silence]

A lovely and fantastic poem:) and the recitation is also very good! thank you for sharing.

[piatan123]

nice one!!

[piatan123]

nice one!!!!!!!

[mylionette102675]

I cried hearing this. SO BEAUTIFUL! oh bless her for writing such living lines...

[DeltaDrill]

Beautiful

[Superstargl1995]

I read a book called this before!

[funmartin1]

theres a ad in uk with the reading of this poem. read with such beauty. do you think we can down load it?