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WITHIN THE VEIL by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE HOLDS A LILY IN HER HAND
Last Line: BUT SURE ONE DAY TO BE MINE OWN.
Subject(s): FLOWERS; HAIR; JESUS CHRIST; LILIES; ROSES;
She holds a lily in her hand,
Where long ranks of Angels stand;
A silver lily for her wand.

All her hair falls sweeping down,
Her hair that is a golden brown;
A crown beneath her golden crown.

Blooms a rose-bush at her knee,
Good to smell and good to see;
It bears a rose for her, for me:

Her rose a blossom richly grown,
My rose a bud not fully blown
But sure one day to be mine own.



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