Love,through your spirit and mine what summer eve <br />Now glows with glory of all things possess'd, <br />Since this day's sun of rapture filled the west <br />And the light sweetened as the fire took leave? <br />Awhile now softlier let your bosom heave, <br />As in Love's harbour, even that loving breast, <br />All care takes refuge while we sink to rest, <br />And mutual dreams the bygone bliss retrieve. <br />Many the days that Winter keeps in store, <br />Sunless throughout, or whose brief sun-glimpses <br />Scarce shed the heaped snow through the naked trees, <br />This day at least was Summer's paramour, <br />Sun-coloured to the imperishable core <br />With sweet well-being of love and full heart's ease.<br /><br />Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxx-last-fire/
