Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894). Time Flies. IX. "Man's Life Is but a Working Day". Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Time Flies.
IX. “Man’s Life Is but a Working Day”

By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)


July 11 MAN’S life is but a working day
Whose tasks are set aright:
A time to work, a time to pray,
And then a quiet night.
And then, please God, a quiet night	5
Where palms are green and robes are white,
A long-drawn breath, a balm for sorrow,—
And all things lovely on the morrow.