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"Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?
Yea, beds for all who come."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Uphill (l. 13-16). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"Does the road wind uphill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
But is there for the night a resting-place?
A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin,"
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Uphill (l. 1-6). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow;
What are brief? Today and tomorrow;
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;
What are deep? The ocean and truth."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. What Are Heavy? (Sing-Song) (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"What is pink? A rose is pink
By the fountain's brink."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. What Is Pink? (Sing-Song) (l. 1-2). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"What is green? The grass is green,
With small flowers between.
What is violet? Clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
What is orange? Why, an orange,
Just an orange!"
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. What Is Pink? (Sing-Song) (l. 11-16). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"Be the green grass above me,
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. "When I am Dead" (song), st. 2. |
"And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. When I am dead, my dearest (l. 13-16). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet, lyricist. "Who has seen the wind?" st. 2 (written 1869), published in Sing-Song (1872). |
"when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Who has seen the wind? (Sing-Song) (l. 7-8). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press. |
"Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through."
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. Who has seen the wind? (Sing-Song) (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University É Press. |
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