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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, we would behold thee moving bright Last Line: Thou hadst breathed joy in earth and in thy kind Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894) | |||
Lady, we would behold thee moving bright As Beatrice or Matilda 'mid the trees, Alas! thy moan was as a moan for ease And passage through cool shadows to the night: Fleeing from love, hadst thou not poet's right To slip into the universe? The seas Are fathomless to rivers drowned in these, And sorrow is secure in leafy light. Ah, had this secret touched thee, in a tomb Thou hadst not buried thy enchanting self, As happy Syrinx murmuring with the wind, Or Daphne thrilled through all her mystic bloom, From safe recess as genius or as elf, Thou hadst breathed joy in earth and in thy kind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI by DORA GREENWELL TO CHRISTINA ROSSETTI by WILLIAM WATSON AN UNEXPECTED PLEASURE by ANONYMOUS GOBLIN MARKET REVISITED by NATHAN CERVO WHEN I AM DEAD, MY DEAREST by MILLER WILLIAMS CYCLAMENS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY THE DANCERS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY A PALIMPSEST by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY AFTER SOUFRIERE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY |
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