Religion

Whatsoever is right, that shall we receive

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From Verses (1893)

Religion

When all the overwork of life
Is finished once, and fallen asleep
We shrink no more beneath the knife,
But having sown prepare to reap;
Delivered from the crossway rough,
Delivered from the thorny scourge,
Delivered from the tossing surge,
Then shall we find—(please God!)—it is enough?

Not in this world of hope deferred,
This world of perishable stuff;
Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard,
Nor heart conceived that full “enough”:
Here moans the separating sea,
Here harvests fail, here breaks the heart;
There God shall join and no man part,
All one in Christ, so one—(please God!)—with me.

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Verses (1893), section: Divers Worlds. Time and Eternity.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “Whatsoever is right, that shall we receive.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/760/.

Chicago

Rossetti, Christina. “Whatsoever is right, that shall we receive.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/760/.

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