Christina Georgina Rossetti: From Sunset to Star Rise

Christina Georgina Rossetti

(1830-1894)

 

From Sunset to Star Rise

 

Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:

I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,

A silly sheep benighted from the fold,

A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot.

Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,

Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;

Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,

Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,

I live alone, I look to die alone:

Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,

Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,

My heart goes sighing after swallows flown

On sometime summer’s unreturning track.

 

Christina Georgina Rossetti poetry

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