What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through, <br />Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold whatever I do! <br />Hard and cold and small, of all hearts the worst of all. <br /> <br />What would I give for words, if only words would come! <br />But now in its misery my spirit has fallen dumb. <br />O merry friends, go your own way, I have never a word to say. <br /> <br />What would I give for tears! Not smiles but scalding tears, <br />To wash the black mark clean, and to thaw the frost of years, <br />To wash the stain ingrain, and to make me clean again.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-would-i-give/
