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Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)


The World


By day she woos me, soft, exceeding fair:
But all night as the moon so changeth she;
Loathsome and foul with hideous leprosy
And subtle serpents gliding in her hair.
By day she woos me to the outer air,
Ripe fruits, sweet flowers, and full satiety:
But through the night, a beast she grins at me,
A very monster void of love and prayer.
By day she stands a lie: by night she stands
In all the naked horror of the truth
With pushing horns and clawed and clutching hands.
Is this a friend indeed; that I should sell
My soul to her, give her my life and youth,
Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell? 



Christina Georgina Rossetti's other poems:
  1. Introspective
  2. Fluttered Wings
  3. What Does The Donkey Bray About?
  4. Under The Ivy Bush
  5. Brownie, Brownie, Let Down Your Milk


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

  • George Herbert (Джордж Герберт (Херберт)) The World ("Love built a stately house, where Fortune came")
  • John Newton (Джон Ньютон) The World ("See, the world for youth prepares")
  • Henry Vaughan (Генри Воэн) The World ("I saw Eternity the other night")
  • Katherine Philips (Кэтрин Филипс) The World ("Wee falsely think it due unto our friends")

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