Luscious and Sorrowful
The speaker addresses someone wasting away with sorrow and asks what tomorrow will bring. Hope answers with a vision of being together at home beyond death and sea, where neither change nor death remains.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Spiritual Poetry · 80 words
First lines
Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow; / Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee to-morrow? / Beautiful, tender -- what else? / A hope tells.
Beautiful, tender, keeping the jubilee / In the land of home together, past death and sea; / No more change or death, no more / Salt sea-shore.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Two short, rhymed stanzas address a sorrowing person and contrast present suffering with a hoped-for reunion.
- Spiritual Poetry — Hope pictures a home beyond death, where those reunited celebrate without further change or mortality.
Tags
sorrow · hope · reunion · life beyond death
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Spiritual Poetry
- Length: 80 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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