Insomnia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Hello and welcome to Liam's Lyceum, I am your host, Liam, aka Himfar, and today I am sharing another poem for Poetry Thursday. Insomnia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Thin are the night skirts left behind by daybreak hours that onward creep, and thin alas the shred of sleep that wavers with the spirit's wind. But in half-dreams that shift and roll, and still remember and forget, by soulless hour has drawn your soul a little nearer yet. Our lives most dear are never near, our thoughts are never far apart, though all that draws us heart to heart seems fainter now, and now more clear. Tonight love claims his full control, and with desire and with regret, by soulless hour has drawn your soul a little nearer yet. Is there a home or a heavy earth, melts to bright air that breathes no pain, where water leaves no thirst again, and springing fire is love's new birth? If faith long bound to one true goal, may there at length its hope beget, by soulless hour shall draw your soul forever nearer yet.