Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FROM SUNSET TO STAR RISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not
Last Line: On sometime summer's unreturning track.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Night


GO from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold;
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot.
Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,
Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;
Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,
Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.
For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone.
Yet sometimes when a wind sighs through the sedge
Ghosts of my buried years and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.





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