Sing-Song and A Child's Garden of Verses

One of my favorite Rossetti’s Sing-Song Poems:
“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? to-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? the ocean and truth.”

The main difference between Sing-Song and A Child's Garden of Verses is the tone and the content of the collections. While Sing-Song is often carefree in its expedition to take the reader on a voyage of life, A Child's Garden of Verses is cold and harsh in its text. Both collections have similar pictures, but Sing-Song was written simply for a child's enjoyment and that is easily noted through the poems.