She campaigned against slavery, wrote extensively and upon the death of William Wordsworth, was considered for the next Poet Laureate.

This will have affected how she lived her life and her attitudes to life, other people and love itself. She wrote poetry from the age of six, at fifteen suffered illness that caused her to live in pain for the rest of her life and took Laudanum from an early age for the pain. The first thing you need to take into account when reading a poem like this is the life of the poet herself. I shall but love thee better after death. Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose, In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight I love thee to the depth and breadth and height This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. GER German (Deutsch) (Rainer Maria Rilke), no title, appears in Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen, no.GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann), 'Weiche, geh', copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission.

1902), 'Sonnet', 1945, published 1974, first performed 1954 Īvailable translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

by Maude Valérie White (1855 - 1937), 'What I do, and what I dream', published 1884, note: this setting has omissions of the text not noted above London: Chappell & Co.

by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), 'Go from me', 1977, first performed 1978, from Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow, no.

15 ( Three Sonnets from the Portuguese) no. 1917), 'Sonnet VI: Go from Me, Yet I Feel', 1955, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no. 1950), 'Go from me', first performed 1994, from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no.

by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), 'Nevermore Alone', published 1900.

Yet I feel that I shall stand', published 1907, from Sonnets from the Portuguese, no.

by Eleanor Everest Freer (1864 - 1942), 'Go from me.

by Louis Cheslock (1898 - 1981), 'Go from me.

4, note: the text in this setting has omissions not noted above

by Gena Branscombe (1881 - 1977), 'The widest land', published 1907, from Love in a Life, no.

Yet I feel that I shall stand', published 1960, from Sonnets after Elizabeth Barrett Browning Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861), no title, appears in Poems, in Sonnets from the Portuguese, no.

Sonnet of elizabeth browning