How do I love you?
How do I love you? Let me count it carefully.
I love you beyond measure.
My soul can touch it, when I feel invisible.
For the purpose of existence and ideal elegance.
I love you to the level of everyday.
The quietest demand, under the sunshine and candlelight.
I love you freely, just as people fight for their rights.
I love you purely, just as they avoid praise.
I love you with my passion.
In my past grief, with my childhood beliefs.
I love you with a love that seems to have been lost.
With my dead saint. I love you with my breath,
Smiles and tears of my life; If God wills,
I will love you more after I die.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How can I love you? Let me tell you something.
I love you to the extent of my soul,
It's like being in the dark.
The end of life and the grace of God.
I love you, under the sunshine and candlelight.
The most basic needs.
I love that you are free, just as people fight for rights.
I love you purely, just like people will not be intoxicated by praise.
I love you, and my feelings are no longer left to the sadness of the past.
I love you, with my childhood beliefs,
I love you as much as I love the saints in heaven.
I love you, with all the breaths, smiles and tears in my life,
If God wants me to die, I will accept it,
But I will love you more when I die.
Touching love story
Elizabeth barret browning's maiden name is Elizabeth Barrett. She was born in England on 1806. She is the first child born in England by the Balet family in 200 years. Before that, the family had been running plantations in Jamaica, so they were quite rich. Elizabeth has 1 1 brothers and sisters. She is the elder sister.
/kloc-at the age of 0/0, Elizabeth had read Paradise Lost and Shakespeare./kloc-at the age of 0/2, she began to write by herself. However, two years later, something unfortunate happened. That year, she got lung disease, and the doctor gave her morphine to stop the pain. As a result, she can't live without this medicine for the rest of her life. More unfortunately, at the age of 15, she fell off her horse, injured her spine and was paralyzed for life.
Elizabeth did not feel depressed after the disaster. She spends more time reading. At the same time, she also became a devout Christian. In order to understand the Old Testament, she taught herself Hebrew and became interested in ancient Greece. She read ancient classics extensively and was addicted to the Bible and religious activities.
1828, Elizabeth's mother died. Since then, due to the gradual abolition of slavery and improper plantation management, the income of the Barrett family has decreased year by year. 1832, Elizabeth's father sold the English manor, moved his family to a small seaside village, rented a house and lived for three years. 1835, the whole family permanently settled in London. Elizabeth was 29 years old that year. She has published a collection of poems and a translation book.
After arriving in London, her father's temper became worse and worse, just like a tyrant. He sent Elizabeth's brothers and sisters one after another to Jamaica to manage the plantation. Elizabeth objected to this, but to no avail. 1838, she was sent to the seaside to recuperate because of her weak body, accompanied by her brother Edward. However, Edward unfortunately drowned during the voyage. Elizabeth returned to London with a broken heart. At this time, she was physically and mentally disabled and lived in seclusion.
1844, she is 38 years old. She has published a book of poems that she has written in the past five years. She didn't know that this book of poems would bring the most important person in her life.
Shortly after her poem was published, she received a letter from a young poet named Robert Bai Langning. He is six years younger than her and likes her poems. In the letter, he wrote: "Dear Miss Balet, I really like your poems. I like your poems very much-and I love you too ... "
The next day, Elizabeth wrote him a long letter: "Dear Mr. Bai Langning, I sincerely thank you …" In the following 20 months, they exchanged 574 letters.
After the previous contacts, he asked to see her, but she didn't agree. She doesn't want to meet strangers. Mr. Fang Ping's Biography of Mrs. Browning vividly describes what happened later:
After several requests, he overcame her fear of meeting strangers. In late May, the warm weather in late spring came to her ward. He saw her, poor and thin, curled up on her sofa, and all the guests couldn't sit down when they came, and there was a sadness in his deep big eyes.
On the third day after meeting, she actually received a letter from him proposing marriage.
Which girl doesn't have a sweet dream of love? However, our poetess is no longer a young girl. She is 39 years old and has completely given up hope for life. Her "lover" is six years younger than her, working hard and in the golden age of her life.
She held the letter and suffered all night. The next day, she picked up a pen and turned him down sadly. At the same time, please ask him not to say such "careless" words in the future, otherwise their friendship will not be maintained.
Bai Lanning hurriedly wrote an apology, not thinking that he had never lied. Before the explanation, the letter was just too much thanks, just a moment of rashness.
The storm is a temporary past. But none of them can give up on anyone. Their correspondence is even more diligent than before, and they often write one or two letters every day. I often can't sleep well without the other person's answer.
The Power of Love From spring to summer, Browning kept collecting the best roses from her garden and gave them to the poetess. The bright colors and fragrance of flowers, coupled with the affection of the sender, add a lot of interest to the originally dark ward. In order to make those lovely flowers more lively, the closed windows were opened and the ward began to have circulating air.
During this period, the health of the poetess improved rapidly, and the shrinking vitality showed the vitality of life again. Doctors don't know that this is a miracle created by love, new joy and new life hope. They can only be surprised at this phenomenon.
It happened that this winter was particularly warm. One day in the first month, she walked down the stairs by herself (instead of being supported by one of her younger brothers) and entered the reception room. "I surprised everyone, as if I didn't go down the stairs, but came out of the window."
Spring came early the next year. In early February, lilacs and hawthorn have sprouted, elderberry has grown leaves, and thrush and "diphtheria bird" have been singing in the branches. In April, the poetess showed confidence in the future and quietly bought a soft hat for women to wear outside. In mid-May, the owner of this hat, accompanied by his sister, rushed into the park. Sunlight leaked from the leaves of the forest, especially soft and spotted, and spread all over her body. She got off the carriage, set foot on the green lawn and picked a golden chain flower from the tree. The fresh air of nature fascinated her for a while, and all the people around her suddenly became the embellishment of the dream, as if at this moment, only herself and the people who are not in front of her heart really exist. She sent the small gold chain flowers to Browning in a letter in return for the many flowers he kept sending her.
It was at that time that she began to write Portuguese sonnets for her lover, and her talent reached its peak here.
When he proposed to her for the third time, she couldn't refuse any more. She is a conquered person, and wholeheartedly agreed to the call of her lover.
She asked her sister Henrietta to tell her father that she had been married, but his old man suddenly flew into a rage, just like her daughter had done immoral behavior, which scared the female poet next to her to faint on the spot. She would rather go to the Daxi Railway and endure the roar of the train entering the station again than face such a furious father.
1846 September 12 After a sleepless night, accompanied by her loyal maid, the poetess walked out of the house with trembling legs, hired a car, went to a nearby church and quietly married her lover. No one was present at her home, but she was very excited. She only thinks that since the church was built, how many women have held weddings where she stood, but none of them are as happy as her, so she has reason to dedicate her love and trust to her husband wholeheartedly. Although they were blessed and congratulated by their parents and other relatives when they got married, she didn't, but she didn't regret it. She thinks it's fair. "Because I am so happy to use it!"
The newlyweds walked out of the church and had to break up temporarily. When she was about to enter the house, she reluctantly brushed off the bride's wedding ring. A week later, when she was almost ready, she left home quietly, with her loyal maid, her dog, and the love letters she had been reluctant to leave for the past year and eight months. The couple left the island country and crossed the English Channel for the European continent.
They first went to Paris, France, stayed for a week, went south to Marseille, took a boat to Genoa, Italy, and arrived at their destination Pisa in early June. 10. In this sunny and quiet mountain city, they lived for half a year; Life is quiet and happy, and I almost forgot the world. In April of the following year, he moved to Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
For four years, the couple never left Italy and lived a happy life. Bai Lanning said, "We are as happy as two owls in a cave, except that Ba is fat and red." A girlfriend also described the poetess like this: "This patient is not getting better, but a different person." Indeed, disabled people who used to be bedridden have now become hikers climbing mountains and wading, exploring secluded places and visiting winners: Venice, Padua and Milan have left their footprints. In Milan, she followed her husband to the top of the cathedral. The poetess wrote to her sister: "I told him never to brag that his wife had played with him here." It seems that a wife with two legs is the strangest clown in the world. "
1March 849, in the third year of marriage, the poetess just celebrated her 43rd birthday, adding untold joy and a man to this small family.
Little "Benigni" is very clever and has artistic talent. His mother teaches him English, French and Italian, and his father gives him two hours of music lessons every day (Bai Langning has a profound musical accomplishment). He can play Beethoven's sonatas at the age of eight or nine. Later he became an artist.
185 1 year, Mr. and Mrs. Bai Langning traveled through Switzerland and France with their two-year-old children. After five years' absence, they visited Britain. But elizabeth barret browning can never set foot in her hometown again, so that the old father can have a look at his lovely little grandson and forgive his daughter kneeling at his feet. She never saw her father again, and the gate at 50 Wimble Street was closed to her forever. The old man respectfully returned the letter written by his daughter, together with the previous letter, intact, and never forgave her until he died.
Mr. and Mrs. Bai Langning lived happily together for 15 years. In this 15 year, they never knew that one day they would be separated. On June 29th, Mrs Browning said goodbye to her Robert. Before she died, she was not seriously ill (just bronchitis) and had no premonition, just feeling tired. It was one night, and she was discussing with Bai Langning the plan of summer vacation. "She and he talked and laughed, and expressed their love with the gentlest words. Later, when she felt tired, she snuggled up to Bai Langning's chest and fell asleep. She dozed off for a few minutes like this, and her head suddenly fell down. He thought she fainted for a while, then she went and never came back. "She closed her eyes in her husband's arms and smiled happily like a girl.
I heard that on the morning of July 1, the shops in the urban area where "Jidiju" is located automatically closed, expressing my condolences.
The people of Florence thanked Mrs. Browning for her deep sympathy for the Italian national independence movement. In the name of the municipal government, a bronze commemorative card was posted on the wall of the "Jidiju" where she lived before her death, which was engraved in Italian:
Here, e.b.b. lives and writes. She combines the wisdom of scholars, the spirit of poets and the heart of women. She used her poems to create a golden bond, connecting Italy and Britain.
I sincerely wish Florence 186 1 with gratitude.
This is the life of Mrs Elizabeth Bai Langning. What a touching love story! As you can imagine, it must be unusually warm and affectionate to heal such a broken heart. Love is really powerful. This reminds me of a famous saying, "Nothing is an opponent of love except love".
Of all elizabeth barret browning's works, Sonnets of the Portuguese is undoubtedly the most famous. This collection of poems was published in 1850, but it was actually written before elizabeth barret browning got married. In a claustrophobic environment, she secretly wrote down her thoughts about her lover in the form of sonnets. It was named Sonnets of Portugal because Elizabeth was dark and small, and Bai Langning often called her "Little Portuguese".
There are 44 sonnets in this collection of poems. How do I Love You is the 43rd and the most famous song, which is included in almost all the love poems. In this poem, we can see that Mrs. Browning devoted her love for God and religion to her husband without hesitation. Because of this, the church has always opposed this poem, but this can only make this poem more popular.
Ok, now, if you go back and reread how I love you, will you feel deeper? When I read "How do I love you? Let me tell you, I can fully feel the expectation of life and death and the joy of finding a partner. It transcends time and space and echoes in the hearts of all young people who are eager for love.