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TWO PARTED by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: SING OF A LOVE LOST AND FORGOTTEN
Last Line: "-- ""OH FOR THE SILENCE THAT STILLETH ALL SIGHS."" --"
Subject(s): DREAMS; LOVE; SEA; NIGHTMARES; OCEAN;

"Sing of a love lost and forgotten,
"Sing of a joy finished and o'er,
"Sing of a heart core-cold and rotten,
"Sing of a hope springing no more." --
-- "Sigh for a heart aching and sore." --

"I was most true and my own love betrayed me,
"I was most true and she would none of me.
"Was it the cry of the world that dismayed thee?
"Love, I had bearded the wide world for thee."
-- "Hark to the sorrowful sound of the sea." --

"Still in my dreams she comes tender and gracious,
"Still in my dreams love looks out of her eyes:
"Oh that the love of a dream were veracious,
"Or that thus dreaming I might not arise!"
-- "Oh for the silence that stilleth all sighs." --



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