Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale
Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery


Hark! that's the nightingale,
Telling the selfsame tale
Her song told when this ancient earth was young:
So echoes answered when her song was sung
In the first wooded vale.

We call it love and pain
The passion of her strain;
And yet we little understand or know;
Why should it not be rather joy that so
Throbs in each throbbing vein?




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