University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

A variorum edition: Edited, with textual notes and introductions, by R. W. Crump

expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionIII. 

[I toiled on, but thou]

I toiled on, but thou
Wast weary of the way,
And so we parted: now
Who shall say
Which is happier—I or thou?
I am weary now
On the solitary way:
But art thou rested, thou?

346

Who shall say
Which of us is calmer now?
Still my heart's love, thou,
In thy secret way,
Art still remembered now:
Who shall say—
Still rememberest thou?