A Smile And A Sigh - Christina Rossetti | Eternal Poems

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A smile because the nights are short!
And every morning brings such pleasure
Of sweet love-making, harmless sport:
Love that makes and finds its treasure;
Love, treasure without measure.

A sigh because the days are long!
Long, long these days that pass in sighing,
A burden saddens every song:
While time lags which should be flying,
We live who would be dying.

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AUTHOR:
Christina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830 in London, England. She was an English poet who wrote romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

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ATTRIBUTION:
Christina Rossetti's portrait from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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