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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

The World by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti
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This poem concerns the contrast between romantic, innocent love and erotic desire. Rossetti’s narrator, probably a man, battles with the two contradictory, extreme forces, and expresses the conflict in terms of night and day, good and evil. It is, in effect, a re-enactment of the Fall of Man in Ge...

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By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair:
But all night as the moon so changeth she;
Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy,
And subtle serpents gliding in her hair.
By day she wooes me to the outer air,
Ripe fruits, sweet flowers, and full satiety:
But through the night, a beast she grins at me,
A very monster void of love and prayer.
By day she stands a lie: by night she stands,
In all the naked horror of the truth,
With pushing horns and clawed and clutching hands.
Is this a friend indeed; that I should sell
My soul to her, give her my life and youth,
Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell?

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The World was written by Christina Rossetti.

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