Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEAD HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Hope newborn one pleasant morn
Last Line: No not in heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


HOPE newborn one pleasant morn
Died at even:
Hope dead lives nevermore,
No not in heaven.

If his shroud were but a cloud
To weep itself away --
Or were he buried underground
To sprout some day!
But dead and gone is dead and gone,
Vainly wept upon.

Nought we place above his face
To mark the spot,
But it shows a barren place
In our lot.

Hope has birth no more on earth
Morn or even;
Hope dead lives nevermore,
No not in heaven.





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