Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Her heart that loved me once is rottenness
Last Line: Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Love; Thought; Worms; Dead, The; Thinking


Her heart that loved me once is rottenness
Now and corruption; and her life is dead
That was to have been one with mine she said.
The earth must lie with such a cruel stress
On her eyes where the white lids used to press;
Foul worms fill up her mouth so sweet and red;
Foul worms are underneath her graceful head.
Yet these, being born of her from nothingness
These worms are certainly flesh of her flesh. --
How is it that the grass is rank and green,
And the dew dropping rose is brave and fresh
Above what was so sweeter far than they?
Even as her beauty hath passed quite away
Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been.





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