Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ONLY BELIEVE;' FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: I stood by weeping
Last Line: To plenty from the land of drouth
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Heaven; Death


I STOOD by weeping
Yet a sorrowful silence keeping
While an Angel smote my love
As she lay sleeping.
'Is there a bed above
More fragrant than these violets
That are white like death?'
'White like a dove.
Flowers in the blessed islets
Breathe sweeter breath
All fair morns and twilights.'
'Is the gold there
More golden than these tresses?'
'There heads are aureoled
And crowned like gold
With light most rare.'
'Are the bowers of Heaven
More choice than these?'
'To them are given
All odorous shady trees.
Earth's bowers are wildernesses,
Compared with the recesses
Made soft there now
Nest-like twixt bough and bough.'
'Who shall live in such a nest?'
'Heart with heart at rest:
All they whose troubles cease
In peace:
Souls that wrestled
Now are nestled
There at ease, ''"
Throng from east and west,
From north and south,
To plenty from the land of drouth.'





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