Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: III. Memory | | Sudden Light | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) |
| | | I HAVE been here before, | |
| But when or how I cannot tell: | |
| I know the grass beyond the door, | |
| The sweet keen smell, | |
| The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. | 5 |
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| You have been mine before,— | |
| How long ago I may not know: | |
| But just when at that swallow’s soar | |
| Your neck turned so, | |
| Some veil did fall,—I knew it all of yore. | 10 |
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| Has this been thus before? | |
| And shall not thus time’s eddying flight | |
| Still with our lives our love restore | |
| In death’s despite, | |
| And day and night yield one delight once more? | 15 | | | |
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