Literagram#12: Christina Rosetti’s I Wish I Could Remember That First Day

Posted on 23. Jan, 2012 by Dan in Blog, Literagrams

Our twelfth poet apparently called off a multi-year engagement upon her husband-to-be’s conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism. That’s devotion…

Literagram#12: Christina Rosetti’s I Wish I Could Remember That First Day

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!

 

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