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MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 1 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME BACK TO ME, WHO WAIT AND WATCH FOR YOU
Last Line: WHEN LIFE WAS SWEET BECAUSE YOU CALL'D THEM SWEET?
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; WOMEN - HEROES;

Come back to me, who wait and watch for you: --
Or come not yet, for it is over then,
And long it is before you come again,
So far between my pleasures are and few.
While, when you come not, what I do I do
Thinking "Now when he comes," my sweetest when:"
For one man is my world of all the men
This wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
Howbeit, to meet you grows almost a pang
Because the pang of parting comes so soon;
My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon
Between the heavenly days on which we meet:
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang
When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet?



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