This's a 6 pages(this doesn't include work cited page) research essay: Topic: Romantic love vs. Family love Sources: please use at least 6 sources to support the topic. Also, please use two sources I

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING [1806–1861]

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 2

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 3

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 4

I love thee to the level of everyday’s 5

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. 6

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 7

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 8

I love thee with the passion put to use 9

In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. 10

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 11

With my lost saints — I love thee with the breath, 12

Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, 13

I shall but love thee better after death. 14

[1850]

EDGAR ALLAN POE [1809–1849] Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago, 1

In a kingdom by the sea, 2

That a maiden there lived whom you may know 3

By the name of Annabel Lee; 4

And this maiden she lived with no other thought 5

Than to love and be loved by me. 6

She was a child and I was a child, 7

In this kingdom by the sea, 8

But we loved with a love that was more than love — 9

I and my Annabel Lee — 10

With a love that the wingèd seraphs° of Heaven 11

Coveted her and me. 12

And this was the reason that, long ago, 13

In this kingdom by the sea, 14

A wind blew out of a cloud by night 15

Chilling my Annabel Lee; 16

So that her highborn kinsmen came 17

And bore her away from me, 18

To shut her up in a sepulchre 19

In this kingdom by the sea. 20

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, 21

Went envying her and me: 22

Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, 23

In this kingdom by the sea) 24

That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling 25

And killing my Annabel Lee. 26

But our love it was stronger by far than the love 27

Of those who were older than we — 28

Of many far wiser than we — 29

And neither the angels in Heaven above 30

Nor the demons down under the sea, 31

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul 32

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee: 33

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams 34

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 35

And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes 36

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 37

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side 38

Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, 39

In her sepulchre there by the sea — 40

In her tomb by the side of the sea. 41