Grown and Flown by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A speaker recalls loving through spring and summer, then questions whether love can survive hunger, cold, and pain. Love that was sweet has become bitter.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry · 167 words
First lines
I loved my love from green of Spring / Until sere Autumn's fall; / But now that leaves are withering / How should one love at all? / One heart's too small / For hunger, cold, love, everything.
I loved my love on sunny days / Until late Summer's wane; / But now that frost begins to glaze / How should one love again? / Nay, love and pain / Walk wide apart in diverse ways.
I loved my love, -- alas to see / That this should be, alas! / I thought that this could scarcely be, / Yet has it come to pass: / Sweet sweet love was, / Now bitter bitter grown to me.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry
- Length: 167 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhyming stanzas express a speaker's changing feelings through repeated declarations of past love.
- Love Poetry — The speaker questions the possibility of loving again and contrasts love's former sweetness with its present bitterness.
Tags
lost love · changing seasons · bitterness · hunger · cold