One Sea-Side Grave
A speaker wishes to rest until morning like a tired reaper among his gathered corn. The closing stanza describes coldness and days gone by, while one person remembers and all others forget.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Elegiac Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 80 words
First lines
Unmindful of the roses, / Unmindful of the thorn, / A reaper tired reposes / Among his gathered corn: / So might I, till the morn!
Cold as the cold Decembers, / Past as the days that set, / While only one remembers / And all the rest forget, -- / But one remembers yet.
Genres
- Elegiac Poetry — The grave named in the title and the closing contrast between remembrance and forgetting frame the two stanzas as a meditation on loss.
- Lyric Poetry — Two short rhymed stanzas join the speaker's personal wish for rest to the persistence of a single person's remembrance.
Tags
rest · remembrance · forgetting · death · harvest
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Elegiac Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 80 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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