Religion

A Song for the Least of All Saints

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From Verses (1893)

Religion

Love is the key of life and death,
Of hidden heavenly mystery:
Of all Christ is, of all He saith,
Love is the key.

As three times to His Saint He saith,
He saith to me, He saith to thee,
Breathing His Grace-conferring Breath:
“Lovest thou Me?”

Ah, Lord, I have such feeble faith,
Such feeble hope to comfort me:
But love it is, is strong as death,
And I love Thee.

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Verses (1893), section: Some Feasts and Fasts / All Saints: Martyrs.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “A Song for the Least of All Saints.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/714/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “A Song for the Least of All Saints.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/714/.

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