Poems you ought to know . 147. UPHILL. BY CHRISTINA GEORGINA EOSSETTI. Christina Rossetti was born at London in 1828. She came of thatversatile family, in which the father and sons as well as the daughterwere writers, artists, critics and poets. While still in her teens, MissRossetti published a little volume called Maud, Prose and Verse,and crude and morbid as the work was* it gave promise of better wrote later, Goblin Market (which Dante Gabriel Rossetti illus-trated), A Pageant and Ottier Poems, and several religious died in 1894. Does the road wind uphill all the way
Poems you ought to know . 147. UPHILL. BY CHRISTINA GEORGINA EOSSETTI. Christina Rossetti was born at London in 1828. She came of thatversatile family, in which the father and sons as well as the daughterwere writers, artists, critics and poets. While still in her teens, MissRossetti published a little volume called Maud, Prose and Verse,and crude and morbid as the work was* it gave promise of better wrote later, Goblin Market (which Dante Gabriel Rossetti illus-trated), A Pageant and Ottier Poems, and several religious died in 1894. Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very the days journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. 448 But is there for the night a resting-place ? A roof for when the slow, dark hours not the darkness hide it from my face? You cannot miss that inn. Shall I meet other wayfarers at night? Those who have gone must I knock, or call when just in sight? They will not keep you standing at that door. Shall I f
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