Category: Rossetti
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‘Mary Magdalene and the Other Mary: A Song for all Maries’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Our Master lies asleep and is at rest.His heart has ceased to bleed, His eyes to weep:The sun ashamed has dropt down in the west:Our Master lies asleep.Now we are they who weep, and trembling keepVigil, with wrung heart in a sighing breast,While slow time creeps, and slow the shadows creep.Renew thy youth, as eagle…
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‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
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‘St Peter’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
St. Peter once: “Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?”— Much more I say: Lord, dost Thou stand and knock At my closed heart more rugged than a rock, Bolted and barred, for Thy soft touch unmeet, 4 Nor garnished nor in any wise made sweet? Owls roost within and dancing satyrs mock. Lord, I have…
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‘Twice’ by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
I took my heart in my hand (O my love, O my love), I said: Let me fall or stand, Let me live or die, But this once hear me speak (O my love, O my love)— Yet a woman’s words are weak; You should speak, not I. 8 You took my heart in your…
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