Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894). Time Flies. II. "Laughing Life Cries at the Feast". Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Time Flies.
II. “Laughing Life Cries at the Feast”

By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)


March 3 LAUGHING Life cries at the feast,—
Craving Death cries at the door,—
“Fish, or fowl or fatted beast?”—
“Come with me, thy feast is o’er.”—

“Wreathe the violets”—“Watch them fade.”—	5
“I am sunlight.”—“I am shade:
I am the sun-burying west.”—
“I am pleasure.”—“I am rest:
Come with me, for I am best.”