我会如何爱你？

伊丽莎白•巴瑞特•布朗宁

我能多么地爱你？让我数一数方法。

我爱你致深、致广和致高

即使超出了视野，我会用灵魂去触及，

直至存在的和极致优雅的两端。

我爱你致每一天最安静的需要，

如日光，如烛火。

我会自由地爱你，就像人们争取属于他们的权利;

我会纯粹地爱你，就像他们羞于被赞颂。

我爱你，投入我昔日忧伤和我童年的信仰积聚的热情。

我爱你用我曾失去的爱，和我曾经失去的虔诚，

- 我爱你，用我生命中所有的呼吸、微笑和泪水！

- 而且，如果上帝愿意，

我会在死后更好地爱你。

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How do I Lve thee

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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 everyday’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 a passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’sfaith.

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.

修改于2015年5月27日 北京 魏公村