Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Come back to me, who wait and watch for you
Last Line: When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes


Come back to me, who wait and watch for you: --
Or come not yet, for it is over then,
And long it is before you come again,
So far between my pleasures are and few.
While, when you come not, what I do I do
Thinking "Now when he comes," my sweetest when:"
For one man is my world of all the men
This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
Howbeit, to meet you grows almost a pang
Because the pang of parting comes so soon;
My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon
Between the heavenly days on which we meet:
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?





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