A Daughter of Eve

Christina Rossetti * Track #114 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

A Daughter of Eve by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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The speaker in this poem is, to use a Victorian expression, a “fallen woman”, that is, a prostitute. She regards herself as a fool to have lost her virginity and reputation.

The title “A daughter of Eve” refers to the verses in Genesis, chapter 3 in which Eve is tempted by the devil in the form of...

A Daughter of Eve Annotated

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warmed sweet to-morrow:--
Stripped bare of hope and every thing,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

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