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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ~ OCTOBER

Monique — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:40:35 +0000

OCTOBER

Crack your first nut and light your first fire;

Roast your first chestnut crisp on the bar;

Make the logs sparkle, stir the blaze higher,

Logs are cheery as sun or as star,

Logs we can find wherever we are.

Spring one soft day will open the leaves,

Spring one bright day will lure back the flowers;

Never fancy my whistling wind grieves,

Never fancy I’ve tears in my showers;

Dance, nights and days! And dance on, my hours!

Christina Rossetti,

from The Months: A Pageant.

Painting: Autumn Leaves

Sir John Everett Millais – 1855-1856

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MIRAGE ~ POEM BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Monique — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:35:09 +0000

The hope I dreamed of was a dream,

Was but a dream; and now I wake

Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old,

For a dream’s sake.

I hang my harp upon a tree,

A weeping willow in a lake;

I hang my silenced harp there, wrung and snapt

For a dream’s sake.

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;

My silent heart, lie still and break:

Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed

For a dream’s sake.

Mirage

Charles Conder (1889)

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CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ~ DAUGHTER OF EVE

Monique — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:31:36 +0000

A Daughter of Eve

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It’s winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm’d sweet to-morrow:
Stripp’d bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Painting is Eve of St. Agnes by John Millais

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