Sonnets are Full of Love, and this my Tome
The speaker offers a love sonnet to their mother, recalling lessons in love learned on her knee and calling her a guiding star. The rhymes honor her name and celebrate her love as undiminished by age and transcending time, change, life and death.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Sonnet, Love Poetry, Dedication · 172 words
First lines
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome / Has many sonnets: so here now shall be / One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me / To her whose heart is my heart's quiet home, / To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee / I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome; / Whose service is my special dignity, / And she my loadstar while I go and come. / And so because you love me, and because / I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath / Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name: / In you not fourscore years can dim the flame / Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws / Of time and change and mortal life and death.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Sonnet, Love Poetry, Dedication
- Length: 172 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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Genres
- Sonnet — Fourteen rhymed lines form an explicitly named love sonnet addressed to the speaker's mother.
- Love Poetry — The speaker calls their mother their first love and celebrates their mutual affection.
- Dedication — The speaker offers a wreath of rhymes to honor their mother's name.
Tags
maternal love · childhood · sonnet · dedication · aging