Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FATHER AND LOVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: If underneath the water
Last Line: Anymore? Nevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Peter Grump
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The


If underneath the water
You comb your golden hair
With a golden comb, my daughter,
Oh, would that I were there.
If underneath the wave
You fill a slimy grave,
Would that I, who could not save,
Might share.

FORSS.
If my love Hero queens it
In summer Fairyland,
What would I be
But the ring on her hand?
Her cheek when she leans it
Would lean on me: --
Or sweet, bitter-sweet,
The flower that she wore
When we parted, to meet
On the hither shore
Anymore? nevermore.





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