Autumn Violets

Christina Rossetti * Track #108 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Autumn Violets by Christina Rossetti

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In this poem Rossetti combines two subjects vital to life as she saw it; love and nature. She posits that violets —a metaphor for love and youth — belong to spring time and new love and hope, rather than autumn. The second stanza ends with a surprising analogy; that of the story of Ruth. Rossetti’s...

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Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring:
Or if these bloom when worn-out autumn grieves,
Let them lie hid in double shade of leaves,
Their own, and others dropped down withering;
For violets suit when home birds build and sing,
Not when the outbound bird a passage cleaves;
Not with dry stubble of mown harvest sheaves,

But when the green world buds to blossoming.
Keep violets for the spring, and love for youth,
Love that should dwell with beauty, mirth, and hope:
Or if a later sadder love be born,
Let this not look for grace beyond its scope,
But give itself, nor plead for answering truth--
A grateful Ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn.

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