Write a summary of the poem Echo Christina Rossetti s most powerful poem is Echo The poem speaks to a lost loved one The speaker asks this person to come back not in real life but in dreams She wants the lost one to appear in the quiet of the night She wants to see the soft face bright eyes and gentle beauty that once brought her joy These memories return with both sweetness and sadness because those happy years are gone She then speaks of a dream that feels too sweet yet painful She wishes the dream could open into Paradise a perfect place where loving souls meet again In that place people wait with longing eyes for the door that opens to let loved ones in forever That door never lets them leave again This shows her deep desire for reunion and eternal peace In the final part