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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALAS, ALAS! FOR THE SELF-DESTROYED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: For a fulness emptied into the void
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Destruction; Saints
Last Line: For a fulness emptied into the void
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Destruction; Saints
Alas, alas! for the self-destroyed
Vanish as images from a glass,
Sink down and die down by hope unbuoyed:''"
Alas, alas!
Who shall stay their ruinous mass?
Besotted, reckless, possessed, decoyed,
They hurry to the dolorous pass.
Saints fall a-weeping who would have joyed,
Sore they weep for a glory that was,
For a fulness emptied into the void.
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