"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep."
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Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260
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