Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MARY MAGDALENE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: She came in deep repentance
Last Line: Loved much, and was forgiven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene


SHE came in deep repentance,
And knelt down at His feet
Who can change the sorrow into joy,
The bitter into sweet.

She had cast away her jewels
And her rich attire,
And her breast was filled with a holy shame,
And her heart with a holy fire.

Her tears were more precious
Than her precious pearls --
Her tears that fell upon His feet
As she wiped them with her curls.

Her youth and her beauty
Were budding to their prime;
But she wept for the great transgression,
The sin of other time.

Trembling betwixt hope and fear,
She sought the King of Heaven,
Forsook the evil of her ways,
Loved much, and was forgiven.





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