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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

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

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[“Ding a ding,”]

“Ding a ding,”
The sweet bells sing,
And say:
“Come, all be gay”
For a wedding day.
“Dong a dong,”
The bells sigh long,
And call:
“Weep one, weep all”
For a funeral.