Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 23, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Beyond the seas we know, stretch seas unknown
Last Line: And still we peer beyond with craving face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


Beyond the seas we know, stretch seas unknown
Blue and bright-coloured for our dim and green;
Beyond the lands we see, stretch lands unseen
With many-tinted tangle overgrown;
And icebound seas there are like seas of stone,
Serenely stormless as death lies serene;
And lifeless tracts of sand, which intervene
Betwixt the lands where living flowers are blown.
This dead and living world befits our case
Who live and die: we live in wearied hope,
We die in hope not dead; we run a race
Today, and find no present halting-place;
All things we see lie far within our scope,
And still we peer beyond with craving face.





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