Amen by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A speaker considers the gathered harvest, finished lives and diminished time, asking whether a field was left unsown and buds will remain unopened. The speaker then affirms that all suffices when rightly reckoned and anticipates spring, roses, sunshine and a garden full of spices.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Meditative Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 164 words
First lines
It is over. What is over? / Nay, how much is over truly! -- / Harvest days we toiled to sow for; / Now the sheaves are gathered newly, / Now the wheat is garnered duly.
It is finished. What is finished? / Much is finished known or unknown: / Lives are finished; time diminished; / Was the fallow field left unsown? / Will these buds be always unblown?
It suffices. What suffices? / All suffices reckoned rightly: / Spring shall bloom where now the ice is, / Roses make the bramble sightly, / And the quickening sun shine brightly, / And the latter wind blow lightly, / And my garden teem with spices.
Genres
- Meditative Poetry — Repeated questions about what is over, finished and sufficient lead from harvested wheat and ended lives to an affirmation of future growth.
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhyming stanzas express a speaker's reflections, ending with the personal anticipation of a garden teeming with spices.
Tags
harvest · mortality · unfinished growth · spring · renewal · acceptance
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Meditative Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 164 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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