| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Miscellaneous Sonnets.
III. 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 | 5 |
| No love in all the world for comforting, | |
| Nor any path but hollowly did ring | |
| Where “dust to dust” the love from life disjoined, | |
| And if, before those sepulchres unmoving | |
| I stood alone, (as some forsaken lamb | 10 |
| 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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