![]() It’s beautiful, brief, and memorable – perfect, perhaps, for inscribing within an anniversary card from a wife to her husband. One of Lowell’s imagist poems inspired by Chinese lyrics and the Japanese haiku, this two-line poem is short enough to reproduce in full here. ![]() This poem is a beautiful reminder that sometimes we cannot trace the exact point at which we met the person we would fall in love with, but perhaps that doesn’t matter when we have the here-and-now.īrighter than fireflies upon the Uji River In ‘The First Day’, a sonnet which is reproduced in full above, Rossetti longs to remember her first meeting with her lover, but because she didn’t know at the time what a momentous event it would turn out to be, she let it slip away ‘unrecorded’. Many of the greatest and most affecting love poems – even the happy ones – carry an air of regret or poignancy, and this fine, underrated poem by Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is a good example. It seemed to mean so little, meant so much įirst touch of hand in hand – Did one but know! That would not blossom yet for many a May. First hour, first moment of your meeting me,
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