Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect
        God's Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she
        Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee.
    Unto God's will she brought devout respect,
    Profound simplicity of intellect,
        And supreme patience. From her mother's knee
        Faithful and hopeful; wise in charity;
    Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect.

    So held she through her girlhood; as it were
      An angel-water'd lily, that near God
          Grows and is quiet. Till, one dawn at home,
  She woke in her white bed, and had no fear
      At all,--yet wept till sunshine, and felt aw'd:
          Because the fulness of the time was come.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABBAABBA XXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 659
Words 105
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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