Saints and Angels by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker longs to leave earthly weariness for Paradise and anticipates reunion there with a parted beloved. Against Solomon’s verdict that pleasure and learning are vanity, the speaker affirms enduring love and hope, presenting death as the gate to lasting life.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Christian Devotional Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 513 words
First lines
It's oh in Paradise that I fain would be, / Away from earth and weariness and all beside; / Earth is too full of loss with its dividing sea, / But Paradise upbuilds the bower for the bride.
Where flowers are yet in bud while the boughs are green, / I would get quit of earth and get robed for heaven; / Putting on my raiment white within the screen, / Putting on my crown of gold whose gems are seven
Genres
- Christian Devotional Poetry — The speaker longs for heaven, imagines white raiment and a golden crown, and trusts that parted lovers will meet in Paradise.
- Meditative Poetry — The rhymed stanzas weigh Solomon’s judgment of earthly vanity against enduring love and reflect on death as a passage into life.
Tags
Paradise · afterlife · reunion · mortality · Christian hope · earthly vanity
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Christian Devotional Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 513 words
- Structure: 1 section, 10 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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