{
 "id": "ameen-rihani/o-sweet-sometime",
 "title": "O, Sweet Sometime",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "Ameen Rihani",
 "poet_slug": "ameen-rihani",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Myrtle and Myrrh",
 "book_slug": "myrtle-and-myrrh",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": 10,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1905,
  "venue": "Myrtle and Myrrh (1905)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/ameen-rihani_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Myrtle_and_Myrrh",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Chant_of_Mystics_and_Other_Poems",
   "https://archive.org/details/myrtlemyrrhpoems00riha",
   "https://archive.org/details/chantofmysticsot00riha"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 24,
  "n_stanzas": 6,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 62,
  "max_indent": 2
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "O, sweet Sometime, the gardens bloom the while I wait;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Each moment melts a tear of joy before thy gate;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "It is thy pleasure that I burn⁠—it is my fate,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O, sweet Sometime!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "O, when the moment in this interval is born.",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "When through this sleeping splendor breaks the lingering morn,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And when thy sensual silence laughs my noise to scorn⁠—",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O, sweet Sometime!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Spare me the vacant moment yet⁠—O just awhile;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Expectancy, thy sweetest daughter, will beguile",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "My yearning hours; the shades reflected by her smile",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Are now my haunts, O sweet Sometime.",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "The waiting while, O sweet Sometime, I can enjoy;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Thy heralding shadows every beating pang destroy,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And with their breath of musk and myrrh my soul they cloy,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "O, sweet Sometime!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "I tremble, I forget, I throb when once I hear",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The dying interval announcing thou are near;",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "A touch, a groan, a kiss and thou wilt disappear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With bitten lip, O, sweet Sometime!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And then the memory⁠—O, how it will oppress!",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Far sweeter is Expectancy⁠—ah, let me press",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The vigor from her limbs to mine; I’ll yet caress",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The waiting while, O, sweet Sometime!",
    "indent": 2
   }
  ]
 ]
}