SUDDEN LIGHT
SUDDEN LIGHT
I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.You have been minebefore,—How long ago I may not know:But just when at that swallow’s soarYour neck turned so,Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.Has this been thus before?And shall not thus time’s eddying flightStill with our lives our loves restoreIn death’s despite,And day and night yield one delight once more?Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.You have been minebefore,—How long ago I may not know:But just when at that swallow’s soarYour neck turned so,Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.Has this been thus before?And shall not thus time’s eddying flightStill with our lives our loves restoreIn death’s despite,And day and night yield one delight once more?Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
You have been minebefore,—How long ago I may not know:But just when at that swallow’s soarYour neck turned so,Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.
You have been minebefore,—
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow’s soar
Your neck turned so,
Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore.
Has this been thus before?And shall not thus time’s eddying flightStill with our lives our loves restoreIn death’s despite,And day and night yield one delight once more?Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time’s eddying flight
Still with our lives our loves restore
In death’s despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti