Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWILIGHT NIGHT: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: Where my heart is (wherever that may be)
Last Line: Again to-day I watch the accustomed way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Longing


Where my heart is (wherever that may be)
Might I but follow!
If you fly thither over heath and lea,
O honey-seeking bee,
O careless swallow,
Bid some for whom I watch keep watch for me.

Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I,
So far asunder!
Hours wax to days, and days and days creep by;
I watch with wistful eye,
I wait and wonder:
When will that day draw nigh -- that hour draw nigh?

Not yesterday, and not I think to-day;
Perhaps to-morrow.
Day after day 'To-morrow' thus I say:
I watched so yesterday
In hope and sorrow,
Again to-day I watch the accustomed way.





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