A Better Resurrection
A Better Resurrection
Original Text
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and other Poems (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1862). end R673 G63 1862 Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto). Text from Christina Rossetti, Poems (1890).
1I have no wit, no words, no tears;
2 My heart within me like a stone
3Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
4 Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
6 No everlasting hills I see;
7My life is in the falling leaf:
8 O Jesus, quicken me.
9My life is like a faded leaf,
10 My harvest dwindled to a husk:
11Truly my life is void and brief
12 And tedious in the barren dusk;
13My life is like a frozen thing,
14 No bud nor greenness can I see:
15Yet rise it shall--the sap of Spring;
16 O Jesus, rise in me.
17My life is like a broken bowl,
18 A broken bowl that cannot hold
19One drop of water for my soul
20 Or cordial in the searching cold;
21Cast in the fire the perish'd thing;
22 Melt and remould it, till it be
23A royal cup for Him, my King:
24 O Jesus, drink of me.
Notes
5] Cf. Psalms 121: 1: "I lift up my eyes to the hills. From whence does my help come?" Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1862
RPO poem Editors
Margaret Frances (Sister St. Francis) Nims
RPO Edition
3RP 3.303.
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