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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Come to me

I just received this poem in my inbox from poemhunter.com, and it just left me breathless.

Echo

Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low

As long ago, my love,
how long ago.
--Christina Georgina Rossetti

1 comment:

  1. oh... that is beautiful and brings visuals to mind.....

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