The Best Thing In The World

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Best Thing In The World:

            What’s the best thing in the world?
            June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
            Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
            Truth, not cruel to a friend;
            Pleasure, not in haste to end;
            Beauty, not self-decked and curled
            Till its pride is over-plain;
            Light, that never makes you wink;
            Memory, that gives no pain;
            Love, when, so, you’re loved again.
            What’s the best thing in the world?
            —Something out of it, I think.