Birchington Churchyard
A low hill overlooks sea and countryside, with green, flowered burial mounds around crosses raised in hope. Sunset lights its western slope as the speaker imagines Time setting and Eternity rising like the tide.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Meditative Poetry, Religious Poetry · 113 words
First lines
A lowly hill which overlooks a flat, / Half sea, half country side; / A flat-shored sea of low-voiced creeping tide / Over a chalky, weedy mat.
A hill of hillocks, flowery and kept green / Round Crosses raised for hope, / With many-tinted sunsets where the slope / Faces the lingering western sheen.
A lowly hope, a height that is but low, / While Time sets solemnly, / While the tide rises of Eternity, / Silent and neither swift nor slow.
Genres
- Meditative Poetry — Three rhymed stanzas move from the coastal hill and its crosses to a reflection on Time and Eternity.
- Religious Poetry — Crosses raised in hope connect the burial landscape with the closing image of Eternity's rising tide.
Tags
churchyards · mortality · eternity · Christian hope · coastal landscape · sunset
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Meditative Poetry, Religious Poetry
- Length: 113 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
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