Summer is Ended by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker considers a rose that has lost its scent and color and wonders whether happiness will meet the same fate. An end comes whether awaited or not, and nothing can alter it.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 103 words
First lines
To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose / Scentless, colorless, _this! _ / Will it ever be thus (who knows? ) / Thus with our bliss, / If we wait till the close?
Though we care not to wait for the end, there comes the end / Sooner, later, at last, / Which nothing can mar, nothing mend: / An end locked fast, / Bent we cannot re-bend.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Two short, rhymed stanzas express the speaker's response to a faded rose and concern for the fate of happiness.
- Meditative Poetry — The question about the rose and happiness leads to reflection on the inevitability and finality of endings.
Tags
faded roses · happiness · endings · irreversibility
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 103 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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