...sorrow, sister, And find in sorrow too: If thus you shame our father's name My curse go forth with you." DREAM LAND Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into...that no morn shall break, Till joy shall overtake BRIDE-SONG [From The Prince's Progress] Day is over, the day that wore. What is this that comes through...

...west, The purple land. She cannot see the grain Ripening on hill and plain ; She cannot feel the rain Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a mossy shore ; Rest,...shall break Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace. Christina Rossetti. LXII MAY AND DEATH I WISH that when you died last May, Charles, there had died...

...morn, She left the fields of corn, For twilight cold and lorn And water springs. Thro' sleep, as thro' a veil, She sees the sky look pale, And hears the...break, Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace. 12 KT and Christina Rossetti were the same age when they wrote these poems. And the passing from adolescence...

...the rain Upon her hand. Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a mossy shore, Rest, rest, that shall endure. Till time shall cease; — Sleep that no pain shall...break. Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace. 5 WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI From 'Review of The Bot/iie oj Toper-na-fuosich by Arthur Hugh Ciough' The...

...mossy shore; Rest, rest at the heart's core Till time shall cease: Sleep that no pain shall wake; so Night that no morn shall break, Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace. AT HOME. When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much frequented house: I passed the door, and...