On the Wing

Christina Rossetti * Track #79 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Album The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

On the Wing by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

On the Wing Annotated

SONNET.
Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)
We stood together in an open field;
Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,
Sporting at ease and courting full in view.
When loftier still a broadening darkness flew,
Down-swooping, and a ravenous hawk revealed;
Too weak to fight, too fond to fly, they yield;
So farewell life and love and pleasures new.
Then, as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground,
Their snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops,
I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep:
But you were gone; while rustling hedgerow tops
Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound
Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep.

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