Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
b'Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nSudden Light \\nby Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 \\u2013 1882)\\n\\nI have been here before,\\n But when or how I cannot tell:\\n I know the grass beyond the door,\\n The sweet keen smell,\\nThe sighing sound, the lights around the shore.\\n \\n You have been mine before,\\u2014\\n How long ago I may not know:\\n But just when at that swallow\\u2019s soar\\n Your neck turn\\u2019d so,\\nSome veil did fall,\\u2014I knew it all of yore.\\n \\n Has this been thus before?\\n And shall not thus time\\u2019s eddying flight\\n Still with our lives our love restore\\n In death\\u2019s despite,\\nAnd day and night yield one delight once more?'