An Echo by Christina Rossetti

A recital of "An Echo", a poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830 - 1894. Christina Rossetti is one of the most important Victorian women poets, part of the Pre-Raphaelite movement founded by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Like him she showed promise as a poet while still very young. She was educated at home and encouraged to write by her family; her teenage poems were printed by her grandfather on his own press. Christina Rossetti is famous for "Goblin Market," and other works. Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years. Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet, Whose wakening should have been in Paradise, Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet; Where thirsting longing eyes Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more. Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death: Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago!