Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Miscellaneous Poems. I. Yea, I Have a Goodly HeritageChristina Georgina Rossetti (18301894)
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Pruning for fruit the pleasant twigs and leaves.
Tend thou thy cornfield: one day thou shalt reap
In joy thy ripened sheaves.
Food-bearing trees each watered in its place:
Or if a garden, let it yield for crop
Sweet herbs and herb of grace.—
Nay, who hath said it? Tune a thankful psalm:
For tho’ thy desert bloom not as the rose,
It yet can rear thy palm.