How Do I Love Thee?

--by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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 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 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.

翻譯者：袁蓓蕾

我有多么愛你，

請允許我逐一說起。

我愛你，

竭盡我靈魂所能企及之深邃，之高遠(yuǎn)

當(dāng)你離我遙遠(yuǎn)，

你也將存在于上帝予我永恒的恩賜里；

我愛你，如同生命的必需

像熹微的晨光 抑或是夜晚搖曳的燈火

對于黑暗里，光明的意義；

我愛你，不受任何所束縛

就像人們奮不顧身，捍衛(wèi)正義；

我愛你，以初生嬰兒般的純凈

像人們沉醉于贊禮，不愿抽離；

我愛你，傾盡我此生最大的熱情

當(dāng)我墜入暮年，我依然愛你

如自童年堅守的信仰，路遠(yuǎn)而不忘初心；

我愛你，足以匹敵那已消逝了的往日對圣哲的傾慕

我愛你，如同呼吸、微笑和眼淚——早已融入我的生命

如果，上天給予我選擇的權(quán)利，

當(dāng)我的生命燃盡，

我依然選擇——愛你。