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LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 4 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO TIRED AM I, SO WEARY OF TODAY
Last Line: EVEN ME, O LORD MY LORD, REMEMBER ME.

So tired am I, so weary of today,
So unrefreshed from foregone weariness,
So overburdened by foreseen distress,
So lagging and so stumbling on my way,
I scarce can rouse myself to watch or pray,
To hope, or aim, or toil for more or less, --
Ah, always less and less, even while I press
Forward and toil and aim as best I may.
Half-starved of soul and heartsick utterly,
Yet lift I up my heart and soul and eyes
(Which fail in looking upward) toward the prize:
Me, Lord, Thou seest tho' I see not Thee;
Me now, as once the Thief in Paradise,
Even me, O Lord my Lord, remember me.



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