Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares | ||||||||
I dreamed that loving me he would love on Thro' life and death into eternity: I dreamed that love would be and be and be As surely as the sun shines that once shone. Now even that my dream is killed and gone, It sometimes even now returns to me; Not what it was, but half being memory, And half the pain that wears my cheek so wan. Oh bitter pain, what drug will lull the pain? Oh lying memory, when shall I forget? For why should I remember him in vain Who hath forgotten and rejoiceth still? Oh bitter memory, while my heart is set Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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