A Better Resurrection

Christina Rossetti * Track #49 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

A Better Resurrection by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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Composed in 1857 again around the time she may have begun looking to religion to give her life meaning after her failed relationship with James Collinson. It was published as a devotional poem in her 1862 collection Goblin Market and Other Poems.

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I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me!

My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk;
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall,--the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me!

My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the searching cold;
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him my King:
O Jesus, drink of me!

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