Death & Dying
Luscious and Sorrowful
From A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
Death & Dying
Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;
Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee to-morrow?
Beautiful, tender--what else?
A hope tells.
Beautiful, tender, keeping the jubilee
In the land of home together, past death and sea;
No more change or death, no more
Salt sea-shore.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Luscious and Sorrowful.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/386/.
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Rossetti, Christina. “Luscious and Sorrowful.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/386/.
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