Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: Fade tender lily
Last Line: Back to pleasant spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Autumn
Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Flowers; Seasons; Fall


Fade tender lily,
Fade O crimson rose,
Fade every flower
Sweetest flower that blows.

Go chilly Autumn,
Come O Winter cold;
Let the green things die away
Into common mould.

Birth follows hard on death,
Life on withering:
Hasten, we shall come the sooner
Back to pleasant Spring.





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