I’ve never been a big fan of poetry because I’m one of those people who simply ‘don’t get it’. However, one poet I do love is Christina Rossetti who is more well known for Goblin Market and being the sister of painter Dante Rossetti. Here is one of her many poems that sings to me:
Beauty is Vain
- Christina Rossetti
While Roses are so red,
While lilies are so white,
Shall a woman exalt her face
Because it gives delight?
She’s not so sweet as a rose,
A lily’s straighter than she,
And if she were as red or white
She’d be but one of three.
Whether she flush in love’s summer
Or in its winter grow pale,
Whether she flaunt her beauty
Or hide it away in a veil,
Be she red or white,
And stand she erect or bowed,
Time will win the race he runs with her
And hide her away in a shroud.
In support of National Poetry Month.
