Living
If her father’s cottage
From Sing-Song (1872/1893)
Living
If her father’s cottage
Turned into a palace,
And he owned the hill-tops
And the flowering valleys,
She’d be none the happier,
Happy little Alice.
Cite this poem
MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “If her father’s cottage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/102/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “If her father’s cottage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/102/.
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