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.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Consolation, opening four lines; The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, volume II; Public-domain opening four-line passage. Complete sonnet read in web-indexed text of scanned collected works; PDF itself could not be rendered/downloaded, so no claim of visual scan verification. This editi
- Consolation, opening four lines; The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, volume II
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