Soeur Louise De La Misericorde

Christina Rossetti * Track #179 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Soeur Louise De La Misericorde by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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The title refers to a French woman, Louise de la Valliere, who was initially a mistress of King Louis XIV.

She bore him four children. When she was thirty she left the court and became a Carmelite nun. A ‘misericorde’ is a long dagger which was used to grant mercy to injured soldiers; i short they...

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I have desired, and I have been desired;
But now the days are over of desire,
Now dust and dying embers mock my fire;
Where is the hire for which my life was hired?
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!

Longing and love, pangs of a perished pleasure,
Longing and love, a disenkindled fire,
And memory a bottomless gulf of mire,
And love a fount of tears outrunning measure;
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!

Now from my heart, love's deathbed, trickles, trickles,
Drop by drop slowly, drop by drop of fire,
The dross of life, of love, of spent desire;
Alas, my rose of life gone all to prickles,--
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!

Oh vanity of vanities, desire;
Stunting my hope which might have strained up higher,
Turning my garden plot to barren mire;
Oh death-struck love, oh disenkindled fire,
Oh vanity of vanities, desire!

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