“Luscious And Sorrowful” Christina Rossetti

Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow;
Thus to-day; and how shall it be with thee to-morrow?
                Beautiful, tender--what else?
                        A hope tells.

Beautiful, tender, keeping the jubilee
In the land of home together, past death and sea;
                No more change or death, no more
                        Salt sea-shore.