Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are ...

"What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth."

Christina Rossetti, who died #OTD in 1894, was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

Christina Rossetti at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7041

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