English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
717. Hearts Hope
B
Shall I the difficult deeps of Love explore,
Till parted waves of Song yield up the shore
For lo! in some poor rhythmic period,
Lady, I fain would tell how evermore
Thy soul I know not from thy body, nor
Thee from myself, neither our love from God.
Yea, in God’s name, and Love’s, and thine, would I
Draw from one loving heart such evidence
As to all hearts all things shall signify;
Tender as dawn’s first hill-fire, and intense
As instantaneous penetrating sense,
In Spring’s birth-hour, of other Springs gone by.