All are not taken; there are left behind
Living Belovèds, 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?'
Consolation
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Poem topics: alone, daughter, happy, heaven, life, wind, world, voice, earth, bring, soft, sound, tender, dust, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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