ALL FOR * L*O*V*E*

Elizabeth Barrette Browning's Famous

Poem "How Do I Love Thee"

Is a true testimony of  love between two people.

When Elizabeth was 15 she was stricken ill.

Her father was overly protective and forbade her to marry.

 He did have her poems published.

She lived in seclusion in her sickroom as an invalid

untill Robert Browning, also a poet, wrote her a letter

and then they began a correspondence. He visited her and they fell in love.

Soon they secretly married and moved to Italy to help her health.

They had a son Pen, and lived deeply in love for many years

Elisabeth suffered many spells and during one she died

some what unexpectedly in Robert's  arms.

Just moments before she had been kissing him.

He never again married.She was only 55 

                                                 

                                          How  Do I Love Thee Sonet 43

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                    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.

                                                                          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning

                        


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                                 http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning


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Love in life

Robert Browning

Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her—
Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch’s perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking-glass gleaned at the wave of her feather.
II.
Yet the day wears,
And door succeeds door;
I try the fresh fortune—
Range the wide house from the wing to the centre.
Still the same chance! She goes out as I enter.
Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares?
But ’tis twilight, you see,—with such suites to explore,
Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!

                                               Read more: http://www.blessedwithlove.com/poem/love-in-life#ixzz1DnvigVHx

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The Mousiekin Family love to make

 Valentine crafts together from

 the Tasha Tudor's "OLD FASHIONED GIFTS"

book that is falling a part from so much use!

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  Pappa Mousiekin never forgets to let Mama Mousiekin know that he loves her      Learn more about the art of Scherenschnitte at The Hopalong Gazette with Jeri Landers http://hopalonghollowgazette.blogspot.com/2011/02/be-my-papercut-valentine.html   ..~..~..~..~..~..~..~..~..~..~..~..

Missy Mousiekin recommends

reading 

 The Unsigned Valentine.

And Other Events in the Life of Emma Meade

by Johanna Hurwitz

A book that takes place in Vermont in 1911,

about adventures of an young lady

and her journal entries about 

 her family life on a farm in Vermont

Johanna Hurwitz (once a Librarian) dose

 a great job intertwining historical situations

including real figures such as Wilson Snowflake Bently,

and Grace Coolidge before she became first lady

Let him kiss me with the kisses of  his mouth

for thy love is better then wine

 Song of Solomon 1:2

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My beloved is mine,

and I am his...

Song of Solomon  2:16

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In this was manifested the love of God 

toward us, because that God sent His

only begotten Son into the world,

that we might live through Him .

 Here in is love...

1 John 4 :9 10

 

Enjoy a Beautiful Tasha Tudor inspired

Valentine Calendar

"The Days of Valentines: Amelia's Favorite Things"

at the Corgyncomb Courant

http://corgyncombecourant.blogspot.com/

by  Diane Shepard Johnson and Sarah E. Johnson.

 

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The Mousiekin Family says:
"take time for love and togetherness"

                     
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Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3 John 1:2

Do You Know JESUS?

Read more here:

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