Living

From the Antique (The wind shall lull us yet)

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From New Poems (1896)

Living

The wind shall lull us yet.
The flowers shall spring above us
And those who hate forget,
And those forget who love us.
The pulse of hope shall cease,
Of joy and of regretting:
We twain shall sleep in peace,
Forgotten and forgetting.
For us no sun shall rise,
Nor wind rejoice, nor river.
Where we with fast-closed eyes
Shall sleep and sleep for ever.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “From the Antique (The wind shall lull us yet).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/464/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “From the Antique (The wind shall lull us yet).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/464/.

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