From Sunset to Star Rise
The speaker urges summer friends to leave, warning that sharing the speaker’s lot would bring cold, hunger and thirst. Expecting to die alone, the speaker sometimes recalls departed friends and past years with longing.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Sonnet, Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 165 words
First lines
Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: / I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, / A silly sheep benighted from the fold, / A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. / Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot, / Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold; / Lest you with me should shiver on the wold, / Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.
For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, / I live alone, I look to die alone: / Yet sometimes when a wind sighs through the sedge, / Ghosts of my buried years and friends come back, / My heart goes sighing after swallows flown / On sometime summer's unreturning track.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Sonnet, Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 165 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Sonnet — Fourteen rhymed lines divide into an octave dismissing friends and a sestet turning toward solitude and memories.
- Lyric Poetry — A first-person speaker expresses isolation and longing through images of winter cold, thorns and departed swallows.
- Melancholic Poetry — The speaker anticipates dying alone and sighs for friends and summers that will not return.
Tags
solitude · friendship · memory · longing · sonnet