| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Time Flies.
X. “Have I not Striven?” | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | July 16
HAVE I not striven, my God, and watched and prayed? | |
| Have I not wrestled in mine agony? | |
| Wherefore dost Thou still turn Thy Face from me? | |
| Is Thine Arm shortened that Thou canst not aid? | |
| Thy silence breaks my heart: speak though to upbraid, | 5 |
| For Thy rebuke yet bids us follow Thee. | |
| I grope and grasp not; gaze, but cannot see. | |
| When out of sight and reach, my bed is made, | |
| And piteous men and women cease to blame, | |
| Whispering and wistful of my gain or loss; | 10 |
| Thou who for my sake once didst feel the Cross, | |
| Lord, wilt Thou turn and look upon me then, | |
| And in Thy glory bring to nought my shame, | |
| Confessing me to angels and to men? | | | | |
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