Christina Georgina Rossetti

Wind-Flowers

Twist me a crown of wind-flowers;

That I may fly away

To hear the singers at their song,

And players at their play.


Put on your crown of wind-flowers:

But whither would you go?

Beyond the surging of the sea

And the storms that blow.


Alas! your crown of wind-flowers

Can never make you fly:

I twist them in a crown to-day,

And to-night they die.