Explore "Monna Innominata: a Sonnet of Sonnets" by Christina Georgina Rossetti on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"Era già l'ora che volge il desio. " -- Dante. / "Ricorro al tempo ch' io vi vidi prima. " -- Petrarca.
I wish I could remember that first day, / First hour, first moment of your meeting me, / If bright or dim the season, it might be / Summer or Winter for aught I can say; / So unrecorded did it slip away, / So blind was I to see and to foresee, / So dull to mark the budding of my tree / That would not blossom yet for many a May. / If only I could recollect it, such / A day of days! I let it come and go / As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow; / It seemed to mean so little, meant so much; / If only now I could recall that touch, / First touch of hand in hand -- Did one but know!