Quotation by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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A Birthday "A Birthday" (written 1857), published in Goblin Market, and Other Poems (1862)A Dirge A Portrait A Sketch

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As a tree my sin stands
To darken all lands;
Death is the fruit it bore.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), British poet. Eve (l. 5–7). . .

The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1. R. W. Crump, ed. (1979) Louisiana State University É Press.

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