Echo

Christina Rossetti * Track #24 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Echo by Christina Rossetti

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This is a lyric poem, meaning that it functions like a song. Lyric poetry usually deals in strong emotions, conciseness and describes a moment in time, rather than a narrative story. Some poetry, however, does include lyrical sections within a wider context.

Rossetti’s poem describes the longing o...

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Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet,
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise,
Where souls brimful of love abide and meet;
Where thirsting longing eyes
Watch the slow door
That opening, letting in, lets out no more.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live
My very life again though cold in death:
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:
Speak low, lean low,
As long ago, my love, how long ago!

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