The Half Moon Shows a Face of Plaintive Sweetness
The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness ...
Ready and poised to wax or wane;
A fire of pale desire in incompleteness,
Tending to pleasure or to pain:
Lo, while we gaze she rolleth on in fleetness ...
To perfect loss or perfect gain.
Half bitterness we know, we know half sweetness;
This world is all on wax ... on wane:
When shall completeness round time's incompleteness ...
Fulfilling joy, fulfilling pain?
Lo, while we ask, life rolleth on in fleetness ...
To finished loss or finished gain.
By Christina Rossetti
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