A Better Resurrection
by Christina Rossetti (1862) — a poem card from Justes Mots
From a heart like a frozen, leafless tree to one that greens again — a quiet promise of being made new.
I HAVE no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimned with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.…