An End
An End
Original Text
Poems of Christina Rossetti, ed. William M. Rossetti (London: Macmillan, 1904), 292.
1Love, strong as Death, is dead.
2Come, let us make his bed
3Among the dying flowers:
4A green turf at his head;
5And a stone at his feet,
6Whereon we may sit
7In the quiet evening hours.
8He was born in the spring,
9And died before the harvesting:
10On the last warm summer day
11He left us; he would not stay
12For autumn twilight cold and grey.
13Sit we by his grave, and sing
14He is gone away.
15To few chords and sad and low
16Sing we so:
17Be our eyes fixed on the grass
18Shadow-veiled as the years pass,
19While we think of all that was
20In the long ago.
Publication Start Year
1850
Publication Notes
The Germ
RPO poem Editors
Marc R. Plamondon
RPO Edition
2006