A Daughter of Eve

Christina Rossetti

1830 to 1894

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Faded and all-forsaken,
I sit alone with sorrow.
A fool to snap my lily.
And wake when night is chilly
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
Oh it was summer when I slept,
My garden-plot I have not kept;
Talk what you please of future spring
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—
I weep as I have never wept:
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
It's winter now I waken.