A Fisher-Wife
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
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The soonest mended, nothing said;
And help may from east or west;
But my two hands are of lead,
My heart sits leaden in my breast.
O north wind swoop not from the north,
south wind linger in the south,
Oh come not raging forth,
To bring my heart into my mouth;
For I've a husband out at sea,
Afloat feeble planks of wood;
He does not know what may be;
I would have told him if could.
I would have locked him in my arms,
I would have hid him in my heart;
For oh! the waves are fraught with harms,
And he I so far apart.
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