A Pause Of Thought Poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti

A Pause Of Thought

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I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is resigned utterly.

I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.

Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My expectation wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.

Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
I long for; to a name why should I give
The peace of all the days I have to live?—
Yet gave it all the same.

Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
For healthy joy and salutary pain:
Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
Turnest to follow it.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Aaron Marchant 07 January 2019

The perfect verse of unrequited love, by one of England's finest poets

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Aaron Marchant 07 January 2019

A perfect verse of unrequited love

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