Death & Dying
Within the Veil
From Miscellaneous Poems (1848–69)
Death & Dying
She holds a lily in her hand,
Where long ranks of Angels stand,
A silver lily for her wand.
All her hair falls sweeping down;
Her hair that is a golden brown,
A crown beneath her golden crown.
Blooms a rose-bush at her knee,
Good to smell and good to see:
It bears a rose for her, for me;
Her rose a blossom richly grown,
My rose a bud not fully blown,
But sure one day to be mine own.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Within the Veil.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/346/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Within the Veil.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/346/.
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