<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360676" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet II: Bridal Birth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first<br>The mother looks upon the newborn child,<br>Even so my Lady stood at gaze and smiled<br>When her soul knew at length the Love it nurs'd.<br>Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst<br>And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay<br>Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day<br>Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.<br>Now, shadowed by his wings, our faces yearn<br>Together, as his full-grown feet now range<br>The grove, and his warm hands our couch prepare:<br>Till to his song our bodiless souls in turn<br>Be born his children, when Death's nuptial change<br>Leaves us for light the halo of his hair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360676" data-title="Sonnet II: Bridal Birth de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first The mother looks upon the newborn child, Even so my Lady stood at gaze and smiled When her soul knew at length the Love it nurs'd. Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst And exquisite hunger..."></div> </div> </div>

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