By Christina Georgina Rossetti; Simon Humphries
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That morning at the break of day Two nations had gone forth to slay. As a man soweth so he reaps. The field was full of bleeding heaps; Ghastly corpses of men and horses That met death at a thousand sources; Cold limbs and putrifying flesh; Long love-locks clotted to a mesh That stifled; stiffened mouths beneath Staring eyes that had looked on death. But these were dead: these felt no more The anguish of the wounds they bore. Behold, they shall not sigh again, Nor justly fear, nor hope in vain. —is The sleeper less at rest for this?
The everlasting ice and snow Were loosened then, but not to flow; — With a loud crash like solid thunder 90 poems The avalanche came, burying under The village; turning life and breath And rest and joy and plans to death. ‘Oh! let us fly, for pity fly; Let us go hence, friend, thou and I. ’ The path that lay before them was Nigh covered over with long grass; And many slimy things and slow Trailed on between the roots below. The moon looked dimmer than before; And shadowy cloudlets floating o’er Its face sometimes quite hid its light, And filled the skies with deeper night.
One obvious difference between ‘The Lowest Room’ and ‘A Royal Princess’ is that the former ends in moralism, and the latter in uncertainty. 37 Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1965 – 7), 3. 1380. xxxvi introduction Dante Gabriel was not merely imposing his own aesthetic preferences on Christina’s poetry: he was also responding to qualities that were already present in her work. When the elderly Christina recalled that, in her earliest phase of writing, she had ‘a distinct aim at conciseness’ (p.