Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: Life is not sweet. One day it will be sweet
Last Line: Asleep from risk, asleep from pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life


LIFE is not sweet. One day it will be sweet
To shut our eyes and die;
Nor feel the wild flowers blow, nor birds dart by
With flitting butterfly,
Nor grass grow long above our heads and feet,
Nor hear the happy lark that soars sky-high,
Nor sigh that spring is fleet and summer fleet,
Nor mark the waxing wheat,
Nor know who sits in our accustomed seat.

Life is not good. One day it will be good
To die, then live again;
To sleep meanwhile; so, not to feel the wane
Of shrunk leaves dropping in the wood,
Nor hear the foamy lashing of the main,
Nor mark the blackened bean-fields, nor, where stood
Rich ranks of golden grain,
Only dead refuse stubble clothe the plain:
Asleep from risk, asleep from pain.





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