Love

Meeting (If we shall live, we live)

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From New Poems (1896)

Love

If we shall live, we live:
If we shall die, we die:
If we live we shall meet again:

But to-night, good-bye.
One word, let but one be heard --
What, not one word?

If we sleep we shall wake again
And see to-morrow's light:
If we wake, we shall meet again:

But to-night, good-night.
Good-night, my lost and found-
Still not a sound?

If we live, we must part:
If we die, we part in pain:
If we die, we shall part

Only to meet again.
By those tears on either cheek.
To-morrow you will speak.

To meet, worth living for:
Worth dying for, to meet.
To meet, worth parting for:

Bitter forgot in sweet.
To meet, worth parting before,
Never to part more.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “Meeting (If we shall live, we live).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/515/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “Meeting (If we shall live, we live).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/515/.

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