What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? To-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
More verses by Christina Georgina Rossetti
- The Wind Has Such A Rainy Sound
- Venus's Looking-Glass
- They Desire A Better Country
- A Ballad Of Boding
- Weary In Well-Doing