Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Christina Rossetti
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang...
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang...
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang...
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang...
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Ah me, but where are now the songs I sangWhen life was sweet because you call’d them sweet? “Ah me” is a type of poetry that captures a person’s emotional reaction to a sad, nostalgic moment from the past. In this case, the speaker is reflecting on the days when he was singing love songs for his sweetheart and she called them sweet. In his early days as a songwriter, he wrote songs that were meant to be sung by someone else. But now, looking back on those days, he realizes that those were the best days of his life because he sang those songs for her. His true love made those songs sweet and all the better for it.

Source: Poems Of Christina Rossetti

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