Sonnet 43: "How Do I Love Thee"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The courtship, love, and marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Browning form one of the most heart-warming stories of the Victorian literary age. She and her siblings had been shut out of most dealings with the world by a selfish, devoted, and tyrannical father. When she met Robert Browning, a passionate soul if there ever was one, and morally as upright a…
