Christina Rossetti

Dec 5, 1830 - Dec 29, 1894

 

Song (She sat and sang alway...)

by Christina Rossetti

She sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.

I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.

I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died on the air.

Source:

Goblin Market and Other Poems
Copyright 1865
Macmillan And Co.London and Cambridge