Song (I have loved you for long long years, Ellen)
Title
Song (I have loved you for long long years, Ellen)
Creator
Christina Rossetti
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
N.D.
Text
Song.
I have loved you for long long years Ellen,
On you has my heart been set
I have loved you for long patient years,
But you do not love me yet.
Oh that the sun that rose that day
Had never and never set,
When I wooed and you did not turn away,
Tho' you could not leave me yet.
I lay lands and gold at your feet Ellen,
At your feet a coronet,
I lay a true heart at your feet Ellen,
But you do not love me yet.
Oh when I too lie dead at your feet,
And in death my heart is set,
Will you love me then, cold proud Ellen,
Tho' you will not love me yet?-
I have loved you for long long years Ellen,
On you has my heart been set
I have loved you for long patient years,
But you do not love me yet.
Oh that the sun that rose that day
Had never and never set,
When I wooed and you did not turn away,
Tho' you could not leave me yet.
I lay lands and gold at your feet Ellen,
At your feet a coronet,
I lay a true heart at your feet Ellen,
But you do not love me yet.
Oh when I too lie dead at your feet,
And in death my heart is set,
Will you love me then, cold proud Ellen,
Tho' you will not love me yet?-
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Citation
Christina Rossetti, “Song (I have loved you for long long years, Ellen),” Victorian Queer Archive, accessed May 17, 2024, https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/53.