Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: My vineyard that is mine I have to keep
Last Line: It yet can rear thy palm
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Harvest; Pleasure


MY vineyard that is mine I have to keep,
Pruning for fruit the pleasant twigs and leaves.
Tend thou thy cornfield: one day thou shalt reap
In joy thy ripened sheaves.

Or if thine be an orchard, graft and prop
Food-bearing trees each watered in its place:
Or if a garden, let it yield for crop
Sweet herbs and herb of grace.''"

But if my lot be sand where nothing grows?''"
Nay, who hath said it? Tune a thankful psalm:
For tho''' thy desert bloom not as the rose,
It yet can rear thy palm.





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