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 an 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.
                               Elizabeth Barret Browning
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尋尋,覓覓,
冷冷,清清,
悽悽,慘慘,戚戚!
乍暖還寒時候,
最難將息.
三盃兩盞淡酒,怎敵他晚來風急?
雁過也,
正傷心,
卻是舊時相識.
滿地黃花堆積.
憔悴損,
而今有誰堪摘.
守著窗兒,
獨自怎生得黑?
梧桐更兼細雨,
到黃昏,
點點滴滴,
這次第,
只有一個愁字了得.
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The Falling Of The Leaves

Autumn is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barley sheaves;
Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,
And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.

The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
                                William Butler Yeats