English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 717. Heart’s Hope |
| | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
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| BY what word’s power, the key of paths untrod, | |
| Shall I the difficult deeps of Love explore, | |
| Till parted waves of Song yield up the shore | |
| Even as that sea which Israel crossed dryshod? | |
| For lo! in some poor rhythmic period, | 5 |
| Lady, I fain would tell how evermore | |
| Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor | |
| Thee from myself, neither our love from God. | |
| Yea, in God’s name, and Love’s, and thine, would I | |
| Draw from one loving heart such evidence | 10 |
| As to all hearts all things shall signify; | |
| Tender as dawn’s first hill-fire, and intense | |
| As instantaneous penetrating sense, | |
| In Spring’s birth-hour, of other Springs gone by. | |
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