A Daughter of Eve by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker regrets sleeping in summer, neglecting a garden, plucking a rose too soon, and snapping a lily. Waking in winter, the speaker dismisses talk of future spring and sits alone in sorrow, stripped of hope.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 144 words
First lines
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-warmed sweet to-morrow: -- / Stripped bare of hope and every thing, / No more to laugh, no more to sing, / I sit alone with sorrow.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhymed stanzas present a speaker's self-reproach over damaged flowers, a neglected garden, and waking to winter.
- Melancholic Poetry — The speaker weeps over the forsaken garden and ends alone in sorrow, rejecting the prospect of future spring.
Tags
regret · neglected garden · lost hope · solitude · summer and winter
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 144 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
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