Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A TRIAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Three sang of love together
Last Line: All on the threshold, yet all short of life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Love


Three sang of love together: one with lips
Crimson, with cheeks and bosom in a glow,
Flushed to the yellow hair and finger tips;
And one there sang who soft and smooth as snow
Bloomed like a tinted hyacinth at a show;
And one was blue with famine after love,
Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low
The burden of what those were singing of.
One shamed herself in love; one temperately
Grew gross in soulless love, a sluggish wife;
One famished died for love. Thus two of three
Took death for love and won him after strife;
One droned in sweetness like a fattened bee:
All on the threshold, yet all short of life.





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