English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. My Friend. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

My Friend

Two days ago with dancing glancing hair,
With living lips and eyes:
Now pale, dumb, blind, she lies;
So pale, yet still so fair.

We have not left her yet, not yet alone;
But soon must leave her where
She will not miss our care,
Bone of our bone.

Weep not; O friends, we should not weep:
Our friend of friends lies full of rest;
No sorrow rankles in her breast,
Fallen fast asleep.

She sleeps below,
She wakes and laughs above:
To-day, as she walked, let us walk in love;
To-morrow follow so. 

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

1. Repining
2. A Testimony
3. Twice
4. The Convent Threshold
5. What Does The Donkey Bray About?

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

James Flecker (Джеймс Флеккер) My Friend (“I had a friend who battled for the truth”)

Dinah Craik (Дина Крейк) My Friend (“MY Friend wears a cheerful smile of his own”)

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