Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)
The House of Life. Sonnet 42. Hope Overtaken
I deemed thy garments, O my Hope, were gray, So far I viewed thee. Now the space between Is passed at length; and garmented in green Even as in days of yore thou stand'st to-day. Ah God! and but for lingering dull dismay, On all that road our footsteps erst had been Even thus commingled, and our shadows seen Blent on the hedgerows and the water-way. O Hope of mine whose eyes are living love, No eyes but hers, O Love and Hope the same!-- Lean close to me, for now the sinking sun That warmed our feet scarce gilds our hair above. O hers thy voice and very hers thy name! Alas, cling round me, for the day is done!
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s other poems:
- The House of Life. Sonnet 17. Beauty’s Pageant
- The House of Life. Sonnet 92. The Sun’s Shame – 1
- The House of Life. Sonnet 50. Willowwood – 2
- The Staff and Scrip
- The House of Life. Sonnet 35. The Lamp’s Shrine
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