A Fisher-Wife

Christina Rossetti

1830 to 1894

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