Read these final lines from Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43.”
“I love thee with a love I seemed to lose/With my lost saints—I love thee with the breath,/Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,/I shall but love thee better after death.”
With which of these does Browning conclude her poem?
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Responses
a prayer that her love will live eternally
a prayer that her love will live eternally
grief over the religious faith she has lost
grief over the religious faith she has lost
anxiety that her saints have abandoned her
anxiety that her saints have abandoned her
a plea that her loved one will always love her in return