Love
After All
From New Poems (1896)
"I thought your search was over."--"So I
"But you are seeking still." -- "Yes, even so:
Still seeking in mine own despite below
That which in heaven alone is found unsought:
Still spending for that thing which is not bought."
"Then chase no more this shifting empty show."-
"Amen: so bid a drowning man forego
The straw he clutches: will he so be taught?
You have a home where peace broods like a dove,
Screened from the weary world's loud discontent
You have home here: you wait for home above.
I must unlearn the pleasant ways I went:
Must learn another hope, another love,
And sigh indeed for home in banishment."
Cite this poem
MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “After All.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/463/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “After All.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/463/.
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