Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BOURNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Underneath the growing grass
Last Line: Seemed too narrow to contain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina


UNDERNEATH the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.

Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty reckoned of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.





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