A Smile And A Sigh by Christina Rossetti
A Smile And A Sigh by Christina Rossetti

A Smile And A Sigh

Christina Rossetti * Track #121 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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A Smile And A Sigh by Christina Rossetti

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Many of Christina Rossetti’s poems deal with the subject of death. She was devoutly religious, but her experiences of life and love were often unfulfilling and disappointing. Her religious faith seems to have been unwavering, but this doesn’t mean that she found joy in it. Often her feellings, as ex...

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A smile because the nights are short!
And every morning brings such pleasure
Of sweet love-making, harmless sport:
Love that makes and finds its treasure;
Love, treasure without measure.

A sigh because the days are long!
Long, long these days that pass in sighing,
A burden saddens every song:
While time lags which should be flying,
We live who would be dying.

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