| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Miscellaneous Poems.
I. “Yea, I Have a Goodly Heritage” | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | | MY vineyard that is mine I have to keep, | |
| Pruning for fruit the pleasant twigs and leaves. | |
| Tend thou thy cornfield: one day thou shalt reap | |
| In joy thy ripened sheaves. | |
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| Or if thine be an orchard, graft and prop | 5 |
| Food-bearing trees each watered in its place: | |
| Or if a garden, let it yield for crop | |
| Sweet herbs and herb of grace.— | |
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| But if my lot be sand where nothing grows?— | |
| Nay, who hath said it? Tune a thankful psalm: | 10 |
| For tho’ thy desert bloom not as the rose, | |
| It yet can rear thy palm. | | | | |
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