Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: She sat upon a mountain
Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


She sat upon a mountain,
And gazed upon the sea;
Beside her crouched a stag-hound,
A boy stood at her knee.

She fixed upon the ocean
An agonized stare --
The ship is fast receding --
Her husband off they bear.

"Oh, robbers! take some pity
Upon my helpless state:
Restore him to my fond arms!
Leave me not desolate!"

They heed not her entreaties,
They list not to her prayer;
The ship is fast receding --
Her husband off they bear.

"Oh Captain! take these jewels
That grace my hair of jet;
And ne'er in my devotion
To bless thee I'll forget."

Then sudden cried the pirate,
"Lady, your prayers are vain;
When as my bride I sought you,
You heeded not my pain.

"Now for the grief I suffered
I'll compensated be" --
He said; and hurled her husband
Into the raging sea.

Upon her snow-white bosom
Sank down that Lady's head; --
"I join thee, dearest Arthur" --
Fair Rosalind is dead.





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