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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BIRCHINGTON CHURCH-YARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat
Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat
Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
A lowly hill which overlooks a flat,
Half sea, half country side;
A flat-shored sea of low-voiced creeping tide
Over a chalky weedy mat.
A hill of hillocks, flowery and kept green
Round Crosses raised for hope,
With many-tinted sunsets where the slope
Faces the lingering western sheen.
A lowly hope, a height that is but low,
While Time sets solemnly,
While the tide rises of Eternity,
Silent and neither swift nor slow.
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