“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?
a. a prayer that her love will live eternally
b. grief over the religious faith she has lost
c. anxiety that her saints have abandoned her
d. a plea that her loved one will always love her in return