Christina Georgina Rossetti

Here you will find the Poem A Summer Wish of poet Christina Georgina Rossetti

A Summer Wish

Live all thy sweet life through, 
Sweet Rose, dew-sprent, 
Drop down thine evening dew 
To gather it anew 
When day is bright: 
I fancy thou wast meant 
Chiefly to give delight. 


Sing in the silent sky, 
Glad soaring bird; 
Sing out thy notes on high 
To sunbeam straying by 
Or passing cloud; 
Heedless if thou art heard 
Sing thy full song aloud. 


Oh that it were with me 
As with the flower; 
Blooming on its own tree 
For butterfly and bee 
Its summer morns: 
That I might bloom mine hour 
A rose in spite of thorns. 


Oh that my work were done 
As birds' that soar 
Rejoicing in the sun: 
That when my time is run 
And daylight too, 
I so might rest once more 
Cool with refreshing dew.