Religion
Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain
From Verses (1893)
Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain,
Its garlands of cypress and bay,
With wealth and with want, with a balm and a bane,
Time passeth away.
Eternity cometh to stay,
Eternity stayeth to go not again;
Eternity barring the way,
Arresting all courses of planet or main,
Arresting who plan or who pray,
Arresting creation: while grand in its wane
Time passeth away.
Codex Note
Verses (1893), section: Divers Worlds. Time and Eternity.
Cite this poem
MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/777/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/777/.
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