More from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. V
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.Poems (1844)- Aurora Leigh (1857), Bk. II

I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
How Do I Love Thee? (1850), Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XLIII
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Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.