Passing And Glassing

Christina Rossetti * Track #176 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Passing And Glassing by Christina Rossetti

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This is a poem about passing time, from a woman’s point of view. The ‘looking-glass’ is a metaphor for fading looks. Just as flowers wilt so do women lose their beauty. The second stanza insists, again through the metaphor of flowers, that even women past their best can be beautiful. The third stanz...

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All things that pass
Are woman's looking-glass;
They show her how her bloom must fade,
And she herself be laid
With withered roses in the shade;
With withered roses and the fallen peach,
Unlovely, out of reach
Of summer joy that was.

All things that pass
Are woman's tiring-glass;
The faded lavender is sweet,
Sweet the dead violet
Culled and laid by and cared for yet;
The dried-up violets and dried lavender
Still sweet, may comfort her,
Nor need she cry Alas!

All things that pass
Are wisdom's looking-glass;
Being full of hope and fear, and still
Brimful of good or ill,
According to our work and will;
For there is nothing new beneath the sun;
Our doings have been done,
And that which shall be was.

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