Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Time Flies. II. Laughing Life Cries at the FeastChristina Georgina Rossetti (18301894)
March 3
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Craving Death cries at the door,—
“Fish, or fowl or fatted beast?”—
“Come with me, thy feast is o’er.”—
“I am sunlight.”—“I am shade:
I am the sun-burying west.”—
“I am pleasure.”—“I am rest:
Come with me, for I am best.”