Christina Rossetti Quotes
Lizzie, Lizzie, Have You Tasted
For My Sake The Fruit Forbidden?
Must Your Light Like Mine Be Hidden,
Your Young Life Like Mine Be Wasted,
Undone In Mine Undoing,
And Ruined In My Ruin,
Thirsty, Cankered, Goblin-ridden?' -
She Clung About Her Sister,
Kissed And Kissed And Kissed Her:
Tears Once Again
Refreshed Her Shrunken Eyes,
Dropping Like Rain
After Long Sultry Drouth;
Shaking With Aguish Fear, And Pain,
She Kissed And Kissed Her With A Hungry Mouth.
Her Lips Began To Scorch,
That Juice Was Wormwood To Her Tongue,
She Loathed The Feast:
Writhing As One Possessed She Leaped And Sung,
Rent All Her Robe, And Wrung Her Hands In Lamentable Haste...
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