“LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL.”

By Christina Georgina Rossetti

Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;

Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee to-morrow?

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.