From Sunset To Dawn
From sunset 'til dawn, how do I love thee
To the music of the cooing doves song
From the crack of dawn with sunny skies or gray
With each thought that passes into light
Of matter gray, each breath that I take
How do I love thee, often my heart
Strays into a lovely day with flowers gay
How do I love thee, deep, long, with each breath
That I inhale and release never to cease
How do I love thee, inadequately pure
Of this my soul is forever sure
How do I love thee, with phileo love
Sometimes eros but await total agape
In response to
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
"Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861
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 old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."
Eros(love)..physical, sensual love between a husband and wife
Phileo(love)...brotherly love mostly displayed by friendship
Agape(love)...powerful, noblest type of love: sacrificial love..humans in the human state can only seek to develop this kind of love while here on earth..We will be completed with this kind of love in our glorified bodies after death..
Sort of a sonnet/much poetic license taken in this one..
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