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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT TO DO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh my love and my own own deary Last Line: While my life goes creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Sleep | |||
Oh my love and my own own deary! What shall I do? my love is weary. Sleep, O friend, on soft downy pillow, Pass, O friend, as wind or as billow, And I'll wear the willow. No stone at his head be set, A swelling turf be his coverlet Bound round with a graveyard wattle; Hedged round from the trampling cattle And the children's prattle. I myself, instead of a stone, Will sit by him to dwindle and moan; Sit and weep with a bitter weeping, Sit and weep where my love lies sleeping While my life goes creeping. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOU'S SWEET TO YO' MAMMY JES DE SAME by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 3 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 22 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE GOING TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN THE BLUE NAP by WILLIAM MATTHEWS IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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