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Album The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

At Home by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti
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In this poem Rossetti hypothetically evaluates the contrast between the sensuous joy of her friends and their way of living, and her own ascetic choices. She presents herself as a ghost looking back at her life and the people around her. This can be read as a renunciation of earthly joys in favour o...

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When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house
I passed the door, and saw my friends
Feasting beneath green orange-boughs;
From hand to hand they pushed the wine,
They sucked the pulp of plum and peach;
They sang, they jested, and they laughed,
For each was loved of each.

I listened to their honest chat:
Said one: "To-morrow we shall be
Plod plod along the featureless sands,
And coasting miles and miles of sea."
Said one: "Before the turn of tide
We will achieve the eyrie-seat."
Said one: "To-morrow shall be like
To-day, but much more sweet."

"To-morrow," said they, strong with hope,
And dwelt upon the pleasant way:
"To-morrow," cried they, one and all,
While no one spoke of yesterday.
Their life stood full at blessed noon;
I, only I, had passed away:
"To-morrow and to-day," they cried;
I was of yesterday.

I shivered comfortless, but cast
No chill across the table-cloth;
I, all-forgotten, shivered, sad
To stay, and yet to part how loth:
I passed from the familiar room,
I who from love had passed away,
Like the remembrance of a guest
That tarrieth but a day.

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At Home was written by Christina Rossetti.

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