Source: Moby Dick
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The Lie (1608).
Book XXI, ch. 9
Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485)
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: 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 everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
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.
My Heart and Lute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“When I died last, and dear, I die
As often as from thee I go.”
The Legacy, stanza 1
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 94.
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
