Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 46. PARTED LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: What shall be said of this embattled day
Last Line: And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Absence; Despair; Separation; Isolation


WHAT shall be said of this embattled day
And armed occupation of this night
By all thy foes beleaguered,--now when sight
Nor sound denotes the loved one far away?
Of these thy vanquished hours what shalt thou say,--
As every sense to which she dealt delight
Now labours lonely o'er the stark noon-height
To reach the sunset's desolate disarray?

Stand still, fond fettered wretch! while Memory's art
Parades the Past before thy face, and lures
Thy spirit to her passionate portraitures:
Till the tempestuous tide-gates flung apart
Flood with wild will the hollows of thy heart,
And thy heart rends thee, and thy body endures.





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