Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: Numbered to pass away
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time; Transience


Oh knell of a passing time,
Will it never cease to chime?
Oh stir of the tedious sea,
Will it never cease to be?
Yea, when night and when day.
Moon and sun, pass away.

Surely the sun burns low.
The moon makes ready to go.
Broad ocean ripples to waste.
Time is running in haste,
Night is numbered, and day
Numbered to pass away.





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