Consolation

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by Indra363 (1.4 wk) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu May 17 2001 at 7:37:05

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
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 sepulchers 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 in HEAVEN and not for earth?'

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
from The Seraphim and other Poems 1838

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:41:00

Con`so*la"tion (?), n. [L. consolatio: cf. F. consolation.]

The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit.

Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed. Milton.

Are the consolations of God small with thee? Job xv. 11.

Syn. -- Comfort; solace; allevation. See Comfort.

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