Immortal Love: An Ideal Woman never dies

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle

We are quite impressed by this classic interpretation of love. Such perfect love we notice in  Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Most sincere love for her husband Robert Browning, one of the greatest English poets, is quite visible in her following lines:

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.

Poverty, want and financial crisis fail to dampen the spirit of Platonic love. As soon as the ideal husband and his partner are afflicted with diseases in  old age, their love is not reduced. Their motto of life is :"Grow old along with me/ The best is yet to be." There is no age limit if love is sincere, true and 'the marriage of true minds" (Shakespeare).

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