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What Are Heavy? Sea-Sand And Sorrow

Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)



What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? To-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? The ocean and truth.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Scheme AABB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 161
Words 28
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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