Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Grown and Flown
GROWN AND FLOWN.
ILOVED my love from green of Spring Until sere Autumn's fall; But now that leaves are withering How should one love at all? One heart's too small For hunger, cold, love, everything,
I loved my love on sunny days Until late Summer's wane: But now that frost begins to glaze How should one love again? Nay, love and pain Walk wide apart in diverse ways.
I loved my love—alas to see That this should be, alas! I thought that this could scarcely be, Yet has it come to pass: Sweet sweet love was, Now bitter bitter grown to me.