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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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“LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL.”

Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;
Thus today; and how shall it be with thee tomorrow?
Beautiful, tender—what else?
A hope tells.
Beautiful, tender, keeping the jubilee
In the land of home together, past death and sea;
No more change or death, no more
Salt sea-shore.