Nature
For Rosaline's Album
From New Poems (1896)
Nature
Do you hear the low winds singing,
And streams singing on their bed? --
Very distant bells are ringing
In a chapel for the dead: --
Death-pale better than life-red.
Mother, come to me in rest.
And bring little May to see.
Shall I bid no other guest?
Seven slow nights have passed away
Over my forgotten clay:
None must come save you and she.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “For Rosaline's Album.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/473/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “For Rosaline's Album.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/473/.
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