E55 "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti

Send us Fan MailDescription: An immersive reading of "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious" by Christina Rossetti with reflection on Grave’s disease, hyperthyroidism, and hopelessness.Website:https://anauscultation.wordpress.comWork: "Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious"by Christina RossettiThere's no replyingTo the Wind's sighing,Telling, foretelling,Dying, undying,Dwindling and swelling,Complaining, droning,Whistling and moaning,Ever beginning,Ending, repeating,Hinting and dinning,Lagging and fleeting—We've no replyingLiving or dyingTo the Wind's sighing.What are you telling,Variable Wind-tone?What would be teaching,O sinking, swelling,Desolate Wind-moan?Ever for everTeaching and preaching,Never, ah neverMaking us wiser—The earliest riserCatches no meaning,The last who hearkensGarners no gleaningOf wisdom's treasure,While the world darkens :—Living or dying,In pain, in pleasure,We've no replyingTo wordless flyingWind's sighing.References:A Pageant and Other Poems (1881) https://books.google.com/books?id=9Sk-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false  Arseneau M, Terrell E. “Our Self-Undoing”: Christina Rossetti’s Literary and Somatic Expressions of Graves’ Disease. Humanities. 2019; 8(1):57. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010057https://www.thyroid.org/about-american-thyroid-association/history/clark-t-sawin-history-resource-center/thyroid-history-timeline/