Death & Dying

Birchington Churchyard

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)

Death & Dying

A lowly hill which overlooks a flat,
Half sea, half country side;
A flat-shored sea of low-voiced creeping tide
Over a chalky, weedy mat.

A hill of hillocks, flowery and kept green
Round Crosses raised for hope,
With many-tinted sunsets where the slope
Faces the lingering western sheen.

A lowly hope, a height that is but low,
While Time sets solemnly,
While the tide rises of Eternity,
Silent and neither swift nor slow.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “Birchington Churchyard.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/417/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “Birchington Churchyard.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/417/.

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