Consolation, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Summary & Analysis
"Consolation" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a sonnet that grapples with the themes of love, loss, and the enduring presence of beloved individuals who have passed away. The poem explores the emotional experience of grief while emphasizing the lasting impact of love and the possibility of spiritual connection beyond death. Consolation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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?' Summ…