Come to me in my dreams, and then <br />By day I shall be well again! <br />For so the night will more than pay <br />The hopeless longing of the day. <br /> <br />Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, <br />A messenger from radiant climes, <br />And smile on thy new world, and be <br />As kind to others as to me! <br /> <br />Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth, <br />Come now, and let me dream it truth, <br />And part my hair, and kiss my brow, <br />And say, My love why sufferest thou? <br /> <br />Come to me in my dreams, and then <br />By day I shall be well again! <br />For so the night will more than pay <br />The hopeless longing of the day.<br /><br />Matthew Arnold<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing/
