Death & Dying
The Bourne
From The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)
Death & Dying
Underneath the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty reckoned of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
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Rossetti, Christina. “The Bourne.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/295/.
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Rossetti, Christina. “The Bourne.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/295/.
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