Consolation

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806-1861


ALL are not taken; there are left behind
         Living Beloveds, tender looks to bring
         And make the daylight still a happy thing,
And tender voices, to make soft the wind:
But if it were not so--if I could find
         No love in all this world for comforting,
         Nor any path but hollowly did ring
Where 'dust to dust' the love from life disjoin'd;
And if, before those sepulchres unmoving
         I stood alone (as some forsaken lamb
Goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth)
Crying 'Where are ye, O my loved and loving?'--
         I know a voice would sound, 'Daughter, I AM.
Can I suffice for Heaven and not for earth?'

DayPoems Poem No. 632
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