NOT by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

NOT by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I NOT love thee?

Let me count the ways.

First you prefer the nights

but I the days

which my flagging spirits keep

while you are fast asleep.

And late afternoons  when I hope to rest 

is when you begin to fill with zest.

And though for the present i have a moderately full purse

you never  think  that things could suddenly get worse

and care less  that I am NOT some hedge fund hero

with  resources of many  more than one  extra zero.

You've been to fifty countries it is true

yet I have mostly remained at home

but when all that traveling is through,

does it last longer  than a simple poem? 

If  some claim that two can live cheaply as one.

Is that only provided  one sleeps while the other has fun?

HzL

5/30/16

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Sonnets from the Portuguese

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Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today.

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• First published: 1850
• Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Genres: History - General History · Poetry · Plays