Love

Lady Isabella

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From New Poems (1896)

Love

Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring,
Gracious as autumn's harvesting,
Pure as the winter's snows; as white
A hand as lilies in sunlight;
Eyes glorious as a midnight star;
Hair shining as the chestnuts are;
A step firm and majestical;
A voice singing and musical;
A soft expression, kind address;
Tears for another's heaviness;
Bright looks; an action full of grace;
A perfect form, a perfect face;
All these become a woman well,
And these had Lady Isabel.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “Lady Isabella.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/576/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “Lady Isabella.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/576/.

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