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Love is expressed well by Elizabeth Browning. Love is a feeling that is pure and natural. I should not be a difficult feeling to express if you are truly feeling it for another, this love can be for either a lover or expressed toward children. Sonnets from the Portugese portrayed love as very natural and pure. Her love for Mr. Browning was strong, the speaker says, "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." Her love for him is as pure as a child's faith, which I believe is a great example as to learning what true love could be. A child only knows what he or she is thought and is not corrupted with other ides (it is still pure).

In Brownings poem Mother and Poet, the speaker expressed her love and loss of her children. She loves her country and wanted then to serve for their country but because the speaker lost her children in a war she is broken hearted. Love for ones country could lead to losing loved ones, which is a hard concept to grasp after a loved one is lost. Elizabeth Browning was abel to show that love is a feeling that should come with simple ease from the heart.