| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Passing and Glassing |
| | | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–94) |
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| ALL things that pass | |
| Are woman’s looking-glass; | |
| They show her how her bloom must fade, | |
| And she herself be laid | |
| With wither’d roses in the shade; | 5 |
| With wither’d roses and the fallen peach, | |
| Unlovely, out of reach | |
| Of summer joy that was. | |
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| All things that pass | |
| Are woman’s tiring-glass; | 10 |
| The faded lavender is sweet, | |
| Sweet the dead violet | |
| Cull’d and laid by and car’d for yet; | |
| The dried-up violets and dried lavender | |
| Still sweet, may comfort her, | 15 |
| Nor need she cry Alas! | |
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| All things that pass | |
| Are wisdom’s looking-glass; | |
| Being full of hope and fear, and still | |
| Brimful of good or ill, | 20 |
| According to our work and will; | |
| For there is nothing new beneath the sun; | |
| Our doings have been done, | |
| And that which shall be was. | |
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