Sudden Light Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Sudden Light

Rating: 3.1


I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before,--
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,--I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight
Still with our lives our love restore
In death's despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Richard Wlodarski 13 April 2016

Perhaps, so many of us have experienced deja vu because we live in this light every day.

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