| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Time Flies.
XII. “Sorrow Hath a Double Voice” | | By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
| | September 25
SORROW hath a double voice, | |
| Sharp to-day but sweet to-morrow: | |
| Wait in patience, hope, rejoice, | |
| Tried friends of sorrow. | |
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| Pleasure hath a double taste, | 5 |
| Sweet to-day, but sharp to-morrow: | |
| Friends of pleasure, rise in haste, | |
| Make friends with sorrow. | |
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| Pleasure set aside to-day | |
| Comes again to rule to-morrow: | 10 |
| Welcomed sorrow will not stay, | |
| Farewell to sorrow! | | | | |
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