From The Antique

Christina Rossetti * Track #214 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

From The Antique by Christina Rossetti

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Rossetti’s poem deals with the plight of Victorian women. Whether middle class or working class, women were regarded as of lower value than men — suited either for domestic drudgery if poor and uneducated, or if from a higher level of society regarded as delicate and emotional and not very clever. C...

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It's a weary life, it is, she said:
Doubly blank in a woman's lot:
I wish and I wish I were a man:
Or, better then any being, were not:

Were nothing at all in all the world,
Not a body and not a soul:
Not so much as a grain of dust
Or a drop of water from pole to pole.

Still the world would wag on the same,
Still the seasons go and come:
Blossoms bloom as in days of old,
Cherries ripen and wild bees hum.

None would miss me in all the world,
How much less would care or weep:
I should be nothing, while all the rest
Would wake and weary and fall asleep.

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