"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form."
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Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.279
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