Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LAST LOOK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Her face was like an opening rose
Last Line: No need, if I forget.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise


Her face was like an opening rose,
So bright to look upon;
But now it is like fallen snows,
As cold, as dead, as wan.
Heaven lit with stars is more like her
Than is this empty crust;
Deaf, dumb and blind it cannot stir
But crumbles back to dust.

No flower be taken from her bed
For me, no lock be shorn;
I give her up, the early dead,
The dead, the newly born:
If I remember her, no need
Of formal tokens set;
Of hollow token lies, indeed,
No need, if I forget.





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