Venus's Looking-Glass, par Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Venus's Looking-Glass

I marked where lovely Venus and her court

With song and dance and merry laugh went by;

Weightless, their wingless feet seemed made to fly,

Bound from the ground and in mid air to sport.

Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort,

Tracking their goddess with a wistful eye,

Around whose head white doves rose, wheeling high

Or low, and cooed after their tender sort.

All this I saw in Spring. Through Summer heat

I saw the lovely Queen of Love no more.

But when flushed Autumn through the woodlands went

I spied sweet Venus walk amid the wheat:

Whom seeing, every harvester gave o’er

His toil, and laughed and hoped and was content.

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Crying, my little one, footsore an… Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on m… I must tramp on through the winter… While the snow falls on me colder… You are my one, and I have not an…

Symbols

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Old and New Year Ditties

New Year met me somewhat sad: Old Year leaves me tired, Stripped of favourite things I ha… Baulked of much desired: Yet farther on my road to—day

Twilight Calm

Oh, pleasant eventide! Clouds on the western side Grow grey and greyer, hiding the w… The bees and birds, their happy la… Seek their close nests and bide.

The Horses of the Sea

The horses of the sea Rear a foaming crest, But the horses of the land Serve us the best. The horses of the land

“I wish I could remember that first day”

I wish I could remember that firs… First hour, first moment of your m… If bright or dim the season, it mi… Summer or Winter for aught I can… So unrecorded did it slip away,

Spring Quiet

Gone were but the Winter, Come were but the Spring, I would go to a covert Where the birds sing; Where in the whitethorn

A Chill

What can lambkins do All the keen night through? Nestle by their woolly mother The careful ewe. What can nestlings do

A Green Cornfield

The earth was green, the sky was b… I saw and heard one sunny morn A skylark hang betweent he two, A singing speck above the corn; A stage below, in gay accord,

Sleeping at last

Sleeping at last, the trouble and… Sleeping at last, the struggle and… Cold and white, out of sight of fr… Sleeping at last. No more a tired heart downcast or…

The Convent Threshold

There’s blood between us, love, my… There’s father’s blood, there’s br… And blood’s a bar I cannot pass. I choose the stairs that mount abo… Stair after golden sky—ward stair,

There Is But One May in the Year,

There is but one May in the year, And sometimes May is wet and cold… There is but one May in the year Before the year grows old. Yet though it be the chilliest Ma…

Sound Sleep

Some are laughing, some are weepin… She is sleeping, only sleeping. Round her rest wild flowers are cr… There the wind is heaping, heaping Sweetest sweets of Summer’s keepi…

In the Willow Shade

I sat beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced… Some true, and some were false. Who set their heart upon a hope

Christina Georgina Rossetti