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LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEAUTIFUL, TENDER, WASTING AWAY FOR SORROW
Last Line: SALT SEA-SHORE.

Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;
Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee tomorrow?
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.





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