Religion
Parting after parting
From Verses (1893)
Religion
Parting after parting,
Sore loss and gnawing pain
Meeting grows half a sorrow
Because of parting again.
When shall the day break
That these things shall not be?
When shall new earth be ours
Without a sea,
And time that is not time
But eternity?
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.
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Codex Note
Verses (1893), section: Divers Worlds. Time and Eternity.
Cite this poem
MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Parting after parting.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/783/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Parting after parting.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/783/.
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