Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The Worlds Best Poetry. Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | Poems of Sentiment: III. Memory | Sudden Light | Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882) |
| 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 swallows 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 times eddying flight | |
Still with our lives our love restore | |
In deaths despite, | |
And day and night yield one delight once more? | 15 | | |
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