What is there in my heart that you should sue so fiercely for its love? What kind of care brings you as though a stranger to my door through the long night and in the icy dew
seeking the heart that will not harbour you, that keeps itself religiously secure? At this dark solstice filled with frost and fire your passion's ancient wounds much bleed anew.
So many nights the angel of my house has fed such urgent comfort through a dream, whispered "your lord is coming, he is close"
that I have drowsed half-faithful for a time bathed in pure tones of promise and remorse: "tomorrow I shall wake to welcome him."
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2 brave one(s) among us:
I've got a good Advent poem:
Drowsing, Half-Faithful by Geoffrey Hill
What is there in my heart that you should sue
so fiercely for its love? What kind of care
brings you as though a stranger to my door
through the long night and in the icy dew
seeking the heart that will not harbour you,
that keeps itself religiously secure?
At this dark solstice filled with frost and fire
your passion's ancient wounds much bleed anew.
So many nights the angel of my house
has fed such urgent comfort through a dream,
whispered "your lord is coming, he is close"
that I have drowsed half-faithful for a time
bathed in pure tones of promise and remorse:
"tomorrow I shall wake to welcome him."
Haunting ... and very good.
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