Sonnet. "If there were any power in human love"

If there were any power in human love,
  Or in th' intensest longing of the heart,
  Then should the oceans and the lands that part
  Ye from my sight all unprevailing prove,
  Then should the yearning of my bosom bring
  Ye here, through space and distance infinite;
  And life 'gainst love should be a baffled thing,
  And circumstance 'gainst will lose all its might.
  Shall not a childless mother's misery
  Conjure the earth with such a potent spell—
  A charm so desperate—as to compel
  Nature to yield to her great agony?
  Can I not think of ye till ye arise,
  Alive, alive, before my very eyes?