Christina Rossetti is best known for her long poem "goblin market", her love poem "remember", and for the words of the Christmas carol in "The bleak winter". Also "Sonnets are full of love and this...
Although it does not have that specific line in it, you may be thinking of Rossetti's poem "Remember"...it has the same theme of the line you described.
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It's about taking the easy downhill path towards worldly pleasure. It concerns taking that downhill path and the difficulty of redemption after taking that chosen route. It focuses heavily on sensual...