Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMOR MUNDI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing Last Line: "this downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World | ||||||||
"Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing On the west wind blowing along this valley track?" "The downhill path is easy, come with me an it please ye, We shall escape the uphill by never turning back." So they two went together in glowing August weather, The honey-breathing heather lay to their left and right; And dear she was to dote on, her swift feet seemed to float on The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight. "Oh what is that in heaven where gray cloud-flakes are seven, Where blackest clouds hang riven just at the rainy skirt? "Oh that's a meteor sent us, a message dumb, portentous, An undeciphered solemn signal of help or hurt." "Oh what is that glides quickly where velvet flowers grow thickly, Their scent comes rich and sickly?" - "A scaled and hooded worm." "Oh what's that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?" "Oh that's a thin dead body which waits the eternal term." "Turn again, O my sweetest, - turn again, false and fleetest: This beaten way thou beatest I fear is hell's own track." "Nay, too steep for hill-mounting; nay, too late for cost-counting: This downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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