Christina Rossetti, selected poems Contents
- Author(s)
- A Better Resurrection
- A Birthday
- At Home
- Cousin Kate
- Despised and rejected
- Echo
- Goblin Market
- Good Friday
- Jessie Cameron
- L.E.L.
- Maude Clare
- Remember
- A Royal Princess
- Shut Out
- Summer is ended
- The Convent Threshold
- The Lowest Place
- To Lalla, reading my verses topsy turvy
- Twice
- Uphill
- When I am dead, my dearest
- Winter: My Secret
Uphill
DOES the road wind uphill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
But is there for the night a resting-place?
A roof for when the slow, dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?
You cannot miss that inn.
Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
They will not keep you waiting at that door.
Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?
Yea, beds for all who come.
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