Death & Dying
Memento Mori
From A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
Death & Dying
Poor the pleasure
Doled out by measure,
Sweet though it be, while brief
As falling of the leaf;
Poor is pleasure
By weight and measure.
Sweet the sorrow
Which ends to-morrow;
Sharp though it be and sore,
It ends for evermore:
Zest of sorrow,
What ends to-morrow.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Memento Mori.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/405/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Memento Mori.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/405/.
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