Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AS A KING -- UNTO THE KING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Love doth so grace and dignify
Last Line: If we should come to love this world too much?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): God; Hearts


You tell me that the world is fair.
A rose in spite of thorns. in spite
Of the old Fall; and that I should not turn
So to the grave, and let my spirit yearn
After the quiet of the long last night.
Have I then shut mine eyes against the light,
Grief- deafened lest my spirit should discern?
Yet how could I keep silence when I burn?
And who can give me comfort? ''" Hear the right.
Have patience with the weak and sick at heart:
Bind up the wounded with a tender touch,
Comfort the sad, tear-blinded as they go: ''"
For, though I failed to choose the better part,
Were it a less unutterable woe
If we should come to love this world too much?





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