From Sunset To Dawn

From sunset 'til dawn, how do I love thee To the music of the cooing doves song From the crack of dawn with sunny skies or gray With each thought that passes into light Of matter gray, each breath that I take How do I love thee, often my heart Strays into a lovely day with flowers gay How do I love thee, deep, long, with each breath That I inhale and release never to cease How do I love thee, inadequately pure Of this my soul is forever sure How do I love thee, with phileo love Sometimes eros but await total agape In response to How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) "Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861 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 every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 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." Eros(love)..physical, sensual love between a husband and wife Phileo(love)...brotherly love mostly displayed by friendship Agape(love)...powerful, noblest type of love: sacrificial love..humans in the human state can only seek to develop this kind of love while here on earth..We will be completed with this kind of love in our glorified bodies after death.. Sort of a sonnet/much poetic license taken in this one..