Two separate divided silences,
Which, brought together, would find loving voice;
Two glances which together would rejoice
In love, now lost like stars beyond dark trees;
Two hands apart whose touch alone gives ease;
Two bosoms which, heart-shrined with mutual flame,
Would, meeting in one clasp, be made the same;
Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas:-
Such are we now. Ah! may our hope forecast
Indeed one hour again, when on this stream
Of darkened love once more the light shall gleam?-
An hour how slow to come, how quickly past,-
Which blooms and fades, and only leaves at last,
Faint as shed flowers, the attenuated dream.
Sonnet Xl: Severed Selves
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Poem topics: alone, dark, dream, heart, hope, light, lost, voice, mutual, touch, flame, rejoice, slow, stream, together, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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