Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/"Luscious and Sorrowful"

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4553613Poems — "Luscious and Sorrowful"Christina Georgina Rossetti

"LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL"
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.