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Consolation

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Topics: classic

All are not taken; there are left behind     Living Belovds, 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?'

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" are among the most famous love poems in English, and her verse novel "Aurora Leigh" addressed women's roles in society and art.

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