Jayne Mansfield - Opening - How Do I Love Thee (Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me) lyrics

Love, love how do we speak of love?
How do we speak of passionate affection?
How do we speak of a deep
And enduring emotional devotion?
How do we voice our reverend attachment
To those whom we adore?
Sit back, relax, and close your eyes
Together we will explore the
Beauty and enchantment
Of love, the glorious poetry of love
The bittersweetness of love
Shall we begin with
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
How Do I Love Thee?

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 to
Every day’s most quiet need
By sun and candlelight
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 childhoods faith
I love thee with a love I seem
To lose with my lost saints
I love thee with the breath
Smiles and tears of all my life
And, if god choose
I shall but love thee better after death