Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917. | | | | “Come Back to Me” | | By Christina Rossetti |
| | | COME back to me, who wait and watch for you:— | |
| Or come not yet, for it is over then, | |
| And long it is before you come again, | |
| So far between my pleasures are and few. | |
| While, when you come not, what I do I do | 5 |
| Thinking, “Now when he comes,” my sweetest “when”: | |
| For one man is my world of all the men | |
| This wide world holds; O love, my world is you. | |
| Howbeit, to meet you grows almost a pang | |
| Because the pang of parting comes so soon; | 10 |
| My hope hangs waning, waxing, like a moon | |
| Between the heavenly days on which we meet: | |
| Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang | |
| When life was sweet because you called them sweet? | | | | |
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