Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Time Flies. IX. “Man’s Life Is but a Working Day”Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
July 11
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Whose tasks are set aright:
A time to work, a time to pray,
And then a quiet night.
And then, please God, a quiet night
Where palms are green and robes are white,
A long-drawn breath, a balm for sorrow,—
And all things lovely on the morrow.