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Christina Rossetti: The Complete Poems

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Christina Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This first fully annotated collection, based on the definitive texts, brings together fantasy poems such as "Goblin Market," terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics, sonnets, hymns, and ballads, as well as the vast body of her devotional poetry. Weaving connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures, Rossetti's poems startle the imagination with their extraordinary truth, beauty, and intensity.

This edition, the only one available in paperback, incorporates contextual notes as well as notes on the text and language, an introduction, and a chronology of Rossetti's life and work.

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Christina Georgina Rossetti, one of the most important women poets writing in nineteenth-century England, was born in London December 5, 1830, to Gabriele and Frances (Polidori) Rossetti. Although her fundamentally religious temperament was closer to her mother's, this youngest member of a remarkable family of poets, artists, and critics inherited many of her artistic tendencies from her father.

Judging from somewhat idealized sketches made by her brother Dante, Christina as a teenager seems to have been quite attractive if not beautiful. In 1848 she became engaged to James Collinson, one of the minor Pre-Raphaelite brethren, but the engagement ended after he reverted to Roman Catholicism.

When Professor Rossetti's failing health and eyesight forced him into retirement in 1853, Christina and her mother attempted to support the family by starting a day school, but had to give it up after a year or so. Thereafter she led a very retiring life, interrupted by a recurring illness which was sometimes diagnosed as angina and sometimes tuberculosis. From the early '60s on she was in love with Charles Cayley, but according to her brother William, refused to marry him because "she enquired into his creed and found he was not a Christian." Milk-and-water Anglicanism was not to her taste. Lona Mosk Packer argues that her poems conceal a love for the painter William Bell Scott, but there is no other evidence for this theory, and the most respected scholar of the Pre-Raphaelite movement disputes the dates on which Packer thinks some of the more revealing poems were written.

All three Rossetti women, at first devout members of the evangelical branch of the Church of England, were drawn toward the Tractarians in the 1840s. They nevertheless retained their evangelical seriousness: Maria eventually became an Anglican nun, and Christina's religious scruples remind one of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch : as Eliot's heroine looked forward to giving up riding because she enjoyed it so much, so Christina gave up chess because she found she enjoyed winning; pasted paper strips over the antireligious parts of Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon (which allowed her to enjoy the poem very much); objected to nudity in painting, especially if the artist was a woman; and refused even to go see Wagner's Parsifal, because it celebrated a pagan mythology.

After rejecting Cayley in 1866, according one biographer, Christina (like many Victorian spinsters) lived vicariously in the lives of other people. Although pretty much a stay-at-home, her circle included her brothers' friends, like Whistler, Swinburne, F.M. Brown, and Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). She continued to write and in the 1870s to work for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. She was troubled physically by neuralgia and emotionally by Dante's breakdown in 1872. The last 12 years of her life, after his death in 1882, were quiet ones. She died of cancer December 29, 1894.

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Text by R. W. Crump with an Introduction and Notes by Betty S. Flowers
Acknowledgments Introduction Table of Dates Further Reading
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
Goblin Market In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-Land At Home A Triad Love from the North Winter Rain Cousin Kate Noble Sisters Spring The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday Remember After Death An End My Dream Song ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")
The Hour and the Ghost A Summer Wish An Apple-Gathering Song ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")
Maude Clare Echo Winter: My Secret Another Spring A Peal of Bells Fata Morgana
"No, Thank You, John"
May ("I cannot tell you how it was")
A Pause of Thought Twilight Calm Wife to Husband Three Seasons Mirage Shut Out Sound Sleep Song ("She sat and sang alway")
Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
Dead Before Death Bitter for Sweet Sister Maude Rest The First Spring Day The Convent Threshold Up-Hill
[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]
"The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge"
"A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"
A Better Resurrection Advent ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")
The Three Enemies One Certainty Christian and Jew/A Dialogue Sweet Death Symbols
"Consider the Lilies of the Field" ("Flowers preach to us if we will hear")
The World A Testimony Sleep at Sea From House to Home Old and New Year Ditties Amen
The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)
The Prince's Progress Maiden-Song Jessie Cameron Spring Quiet The Poor Ghost A Portrait Dream-Love Twice Songs in a Cornfield A Year's Windfalls The Queen of Hearts One Day A Bird's-Eye View Light Love On the Wing A Ring Posy Beauty Is Vain Maggie a Lady What Would I Give?
The Bourne Summer ("Winter is cold-hearted")
Autumn ("I dwell alone¡ªI dwell alone, alone")
The Ghost's Petition Memory A Royal Princess Shall I Forget?
Vanity of Vanities ("Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain")
L. E. L.
Life and Death Bird or Beast?
Eve Grown and Flown A Farm Walk Somewhere or Other A Chill Child's Talk in April Gone for Ever
"The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children"
[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]
Despised and Rejected Long Barren If Only Dost Thou Not Care?
Weary in Well-Doing Martyrs' Song After This the Judgment Good Friday ("Am I a stone and not a sheep")
The Lowest Place
Poems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)
By the Sea From Sunset to Star Rise Days of Vanity Once for All/(Margaret)
Enrica, 1865
Autumn Violets A Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling")
"They Desire a Better Country"
A Green Cornfield A Bride Song Confluents The Lowest Room Dead Hope A Daughter of Eve Song ("Oh what comes over the sea")
Venus's Looking-Glass Love Lies Bleeding Bird Raptures My Friend Twilight Night A Bird Song A Smile and a Sigh Amor Mundi The German-French Campaign/1870-1871: 1. "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"; 2. "Today for Me"
A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")
Consider By the Waters of Babylon/B.C. 570
Paradise Mother Country
"I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills" ("I am pale with sick desire")
"The Master Is Come, and Calleth for Thee"
Who Shall DeliverMe?
"When My Heart Is Vexed, I Will Complain" ("O Lord, how canst Thou say Thou lovest me?")
After Communion Saints and Angels A Rose Plant in Jericho
Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
Angels at the foot Love me, - I love you My baby has a father and a mother Out little baby fell asleep
"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"
Baby cry Eight o'clock Bread and milk for breakfast There's snow on the fields Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush I dug and dug amongst the snow A city plum is not a plum Your brother has a falcon Hear what the mournful linnets say A baby's cradle with no baby in it Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth O wind, why do you never rest Crying, my little one, footsore and weary Growing in the vale A linnet in a gilded cage Wrens and robins in the hedge My baby has a mottled fist Why did baby die If all were rain and never sun O wind, where have you been On the grassy banks Rushes in a watery place Minnie and Mattie Heartease in my garden bed If I were a Queen What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow There is but one May in the year The summer nights are short The days are clear Twist me a crown of wind-flowers Brown and furry A toadstoll comes up in a night A pocket hankerchief to hem If a pig wore a wig Seldom "can't"
1 and 1 are 2
How many seconds in a minute What will you give me for my pound January cold desolate What is pink? a rose is pink Mother shake the cherry-tree A pin has a head, but has no hair Hopping frog, hop here and be seen Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are The city mouse lives in a house What does the donkey bray about Three plum buns A motherless soft lambkin Dancing on the hill-tops When fishes set umbrellas up The peacock has a score of eyes Pussy has a whiskered face The dog lies in his kennel If hope grew on a bush I planted a hand Under the ivy bush There is one that has a head without an eye If a mouse could fly Sing me a song The lily has an air Margaret has a milking-pail In the meadow - what in the meadow A frisky lamb Mix a pancake The wind has such a rainy sound Three little children Fly away, fly away over the sea Minnie bakes oaten cakes A white hen sitting Currants on a bush I have but one rose in the world Rosy maiden Winifred When the cows come home the milk is coming Roses blushing red and white
"Ding a ding"
A ring upon her finger
"Ferry me across the water"
When a mounting skylark sings Who has seen the wind The horses of the sea O sailor, come ashore A diamond or a coal An emerald is green as grass Boats sail on the rivers The lily has a smooth stalk Hurt no living thing I caught a little ladybird All the bells were ringing Wee wee husband I have a little husband The dear old woman in the lane Swift and sure the swallow
"I dreamt I caught a little owl"
What does the bee do I have a Poll parrot A house of cards The rose with such a bonny blush The rose that blushes rosy red Oh fair to see Clever little Willie wee The peach tree on the southern wall A rose has thorns as well as honey Is the moon tired? she looks so pale If stars dropped out of heaven
"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"
If the sun could tell us half If the moon came from heaven O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east What do the stars do Motherless baby and babyless mother Crimson curtains round my mother's bed Baby lies so fast asleep I know a baby, such a baby Lullaby, oh lullaby Lie a-bed
Poems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk Sroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire I am a King Playing at bob cherry Blind from my birth
A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome The Key-Note The Months/A Pageant Pastime
"Italia, Io Ti Saluto!"
Mirrors of Life and Death A Ballad of Boding Yet a Little While ("I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek")
He and She Monna Innominata
"Luscious and Sorrowful" ("Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow")
De Profundis Tempus Fugit Golden Glories Johnny
"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"
Maiden May Till Tomorrow Death-Watches Touching "Never"
Brandons Both A Life's Parallels At Last Golden Silences In the Willow Shade Fluttered Wings A Fisher-Wife What's in a Name?
Mariana Memento Mori
"One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore"
Buds and Babies Boy Johnny Freaks of Fashion An October Garden
"Summer Is Ended"
Passing and Glassing
"I Will Arise"
A Prodigal Son Soeur Louise de la Misericorde An "Immurata" Sister
"If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not"
The Thread of Life An Old-World Thicket
"All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord"/A Processional of Creation Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets
"For Thine Own Sake, O My God"
Until the Day Break
"Of Him That Was Ready to Perish"
"Behold the Man!"
The Descent from the Cross
"It Is Finished"
An Easter Carol
"Behold a Shaking"
All Saints ("They are flocking from the East")
"Take Care of Him"
A Martyr/The Vigil of the Feast Why?
"Love Is Strong as Death" ("I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee")
Poems Added in Poems (1888, 1890)
Birchington Churchyard One Sea-Side Grave Brother Bruin
"A Helpmeet for Him"
A Song of Flight A Wintry Sonnet Resurgam Today's Burden
"There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"
Exultate Deo A Hope Carol Christmas Carols: "Whoso hears a chiming for Christmas in the nighest"; "A holy, heavenly chime"; Lo! newborn Jesus A Candlemas Dialogue Mary Magdalene and the Other Mary/A Song for XII Maries Patience of Hope
Verses (1893)
"OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD"
Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace Seven vials hold Thy wrath: but what can hold
"Where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt"
"As the sparks fly upwards"
Lord, make us all love all: that when we meet O Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy Face It is not death, O Christ, to die for Thee Lord, grant us eyes to see and ears to hear
"Cried out with Tears"
O Lord, on Whom we gaze and dare not gaze
"I will come and heal him"
Ah, Lord, Lord, if my heart were right with Thine
"The gold of that land is good"
Weigh all my faults and follies righteously Lord, grant me grace to love Thee in my pain Lord, make me one with Thine own faithful ones
"Light of Light"
CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL
"The ransomed of the Lord"
Lord, we are rivers running to Thy sea
"An exceeding bitter cry"
O Lord, when Thou didst call me, didst Thou know
"Thou, God, seest me"
Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine
"The Name of Jesus"
Lord God of Hosts, most Holy and most High Lord, what have I that I may offer Thee If I should say "my heart is in my home"
Leaf from leaf Christ knows Lord, carry me. - Nay, but I grant thee strength Lord, I am here. - But, child, I look for thee New creatures; the Creator still the Same
"King of kings and lord of lords"
Thy Name, O Christ, as incense streaming forth
"The Good Shepherd"
"Rejoice with Me"
Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right Me and my gift: kind Lord, behold
"He cannot deny Himself"
"Slain from the foundation of the world"
Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soul I, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small
"Because He first loved us"
Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we As the dove which found no rest
"Thou art Fairer than the children of men"
"As the Apple Tree among the trees of the wood"
None other Lamb, none other Name
"Thy Friend and thy Father's Friend forget not"
"Surely He has borne our griefs"
"They toil not, neither do they spin"
Darkness and light are both alike to Thee
"And now why tarriest thou?"
Have I not striven, my God, and watched and prayed
"God is our Hope and Strength"
Day and night the Accuser makes no pause O mine enemy Lord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I
"Peace I leave with you"
O Christ our All in each, our All in all Because Thy Love hath sought me Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse
"Like as the hart desireth the water brooks"
"That where I am, there ye may be also"
"Judge not according to the appearance"
My God, wilt Thou accept, and will not we A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea
"The Chiefest among ten thousand" ("O Jesu, better than thy gifts")
Some Feasts and Fasts
Advent Sunday Advent ("Earth grown old, yet still so green")
Sooner or later: yet at last Christmas Eve Christmas Day Christmastide St. John, Apostle
"Beloved, let us love one another," says St. John Holy Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept")
Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb Epiphany Epiphanytide Septuagesima Sexagesima That Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vie Quinquagesima Piteous my rhyme is Ash Wednesday ("My God, my God, have mercy on my sin")
Good Lord, today Lent Embertide Mid-Lent Passiontide Palm Sunday Monday in Holy Week Tuesday in Holy Week Wednesday in Holy Week Maundy Thursday Good Friday Morning Good Friday ("Lord Jesus Christ, grown faint upon the Cross")
Good Friday Evening
"A bundle of myrrh is my Well-beloved to me"
Easter Even ("The tempest over and gone, the calm begun")
Our Church Palms are budding willow twigs Easter Day Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Rogationtide Ascension Eve Ascension Day Whitsun Eve ("'As many as I love.' - Ah, Lord, Who lovest all")
Whitsun Day Whitsun Monday Whitsun Tuesday Trinity Sunday Conversion of St. Paul In weariness and painfulness St. Paul Vigil of the Presentation Feast of the Presentation The Purification of St. Mary the Virgin Vigil of the Annunciation Feast of the Annunciation Herself a rose, who bore the Rose St. Mark St. Barnabas Vigil of St. Peter St. Peter St. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"
I followed Thee, my God, I followed Thee Vigil of St. Bartholomew St. Michael and All Angels Vigil of All Saints All Saints ("As grains of sand, as stars, as drops of dew")
All Saints: Martyrs
"I gave a sweet smell"
Hark! the Alleluias of the great salvation A Song for the Least of All Saints Sunday before Advent
GIFTS AND GRACES
Love loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth Thee Lord, give me love that I may love Thee much
"As a king,....unto the King"
O ye who love today Life that was born today
"Perfect Love casteth out Fear"
Hope is the counterpoise of fear
"Subject to like Passions as we are"
Experience bows a sweet contented face
"Charity never Faileth"
"The Greatest of these is Charity"
All beneath the sun hasteth If thou be dead, forgive and thou shalt live
"Let Patience have her perfect work" ("Can man rejoice who lives in hourly fear?")
Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow
"Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord"
What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love still Lord, make me pure Love, to be love, must walk Thy way Lord, I am feeble and of mean account Tune me, O Lord, into one Harmony
"They shall be as white as snow"
Thy lilies drink the dew
"When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord"
Grant us such grace that we may work Thy Will
"Who hath despised the day of small things?"
"Do this, and he doeth it"
"That no man take thy Crown"
"Ye are come unto Mount Sion"
"Sit down in the lowest room"
"Lord, it is good for us to be here"
Lord, grant us grace to rest upon Thy word
THE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION
"A vain Shadow"
"Lord, save us, we perish"
What is this above thy head Babylon the Great
"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment"
"O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"
Alas, alas! for the self-destroyed As froth on the face of the deep
"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"
Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flying
DIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNTIY Earth has clear call of daily bells
"Escape to the Mountain"
I lift mine eyes to see: earth vanisheth
"Yet a little while" ("Heaven is not far, though far the sky")
"Behold, it was very good"
"Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive"
This near-at-hand land breeds pain by measure
"Was Thy Wrath against the Sea?"
"And there was no more Sea"
Roses on a brier We are of those who tremble at Thy word
"Awake, thou that sleepest"
We know not when, we know not where
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the Hills" ("When sick of life and all the world")
"Then whose shall those things be?"
"His Banner over me was Love"
Beloved, yield thy time to God, for He Time seems not short The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness
"As the Doves to their windows"
Oh knell of a passing time Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain
"The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him"
Time lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long
"All Flesh is Grass"
Heaven's chimes are slow, but sure to strike at last
"There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God"
Parting after parting
"They put their trust in Thee, and were not confounded"
Short is time, and only time is bleak For Each For All
NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS
"The Holy City, New Jerusalem"
When wickedness is broken as a tree Jerusalem of fire
"She shall be brought unto the King"
Who is this that cometh up not alone Who sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a bride Antipas
"Beautiful for situation"
Lord, by what inconceivable dim road
"As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country"
Cast down but not destroyed, chastened not slain Lift up thine eyes to seek the invisible
"Love is strong as Death" ("As flames that consume the mountains, as winds that coerce the sea")
"Let them rejoice in their beds" ("Crimson as the rubies, crimson as the roses")
Slain in their high places: fallen on rest
"What hath God wrought!"
"Before the Throne, and before the Lamb"
"He shall go no more out"
Yea, blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection The joy of Saints, like incense turned to fire What are these lovely ones, yea, what are these?
"The General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn"
"Every one that is perfect shall be as his master"
"As dying, and behold we live"
"So great a cloud of Witnesses"
Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful Safe where I cannot lie yet
"Is it well with the child?"
Dear Angels and dear disembodied Saints
"To every seed his own body"
"What good shall my life do me?" ("Have dead men long to wait?")
SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
"Her Seed; It shall bruise thy head"
"Judge nothing before the time"
How great is little man Man's life is but a working day If not with hope of life
"The day is at hand"
"Endure hardness"
"Whither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord"
Where never tempest heaveth Marvel of marvels, if I myself shall behold
"What is that to thee? follow thou me"
"Worship God"
"Afterward he repented, and went"
"Are they not all Ministering Spirits?"
Our life is long. Not so, wise Angels say Lord, what have I to offer? sickening far Joy is but sorrow Can I know it? - Nay
"When my heart is vexed I will complain" ("The fields are white to harvest, look and see")
"Praying always"
"As thy days, so shall thy strength be"
A heavy heart, if ever heart was heavy If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living What is it Jesus saith unto the soul They lie at rest, our blessed dead
"Ye that fear Him, both small and great"
"Called to be Saints"
The sinner's own fault? So it was Who cares for earthly bread tho' white?
Laughing Life cries at the feast
"The end is not yet"
Who would wish back the Saints upon our rough
"That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is Man"
Of each sad word which is more sorrowful
"I see that all things come to an end"
"But Thy Commandment is exceeding broad"
Sursum Corda O ye,who are not dead and fit Where shall I find a white rose blowing
"Redeeming the Time"
"Now they desire a Better Country"
A Castle-Builder's World
"These all wait upon Thee"
"Doeth well...doeth better"
Our heaven must be within ourselves
"Vanity of Vanities" ("Of all the downfalls in the world")
The hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walk Scarce tolerable life, which all life long All heaven is blazing yet
"Balm in Gilead"
"In the day of his Espousals"
"She came from the uttermost part of the earth"
Alleluia! or Alas! my heart is crying The Passion Flower hath sprung up tall God's Acre
"The Flowers appear on the Earth"
"Thou knewest...thou oughtest therefore"
"Go in Peace"
"Half dead"
"One of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced His Side"
Where love is, there comes sorrow Bury Hope out of sight A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope One woe is past. Come what come will
"Take no thought for the morrow"
"Consider the Lilies of the field" ("Solomon most gracious in array")
"Son, remember"
"Heaviness may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning"
"The Will of the Lord be done"
"Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven"
"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth"
"Then shall ye shout"
Everything that is born must die Lord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth Thee Changing Chimes
"Thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine"
Thro' burden and heat of the day
"Then I commended Mirth"
Sorrow hath a double voice Shadows today, while shadows show God's Will
"Truly the Light is sweet"
"Are ye not much better than they?"
"Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house"
"I am small and of no reputation"
O Christ my God Who seest the unseen Yea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy sword Sweetness of rest when Thou sheddest rest O foolish Soul! to make thy count Before the beginning Thou hast foreknown the end The goal in sigh! Look up and sing Looking back along life's trodden way
Separately Published Poems
Death's Chill Between Heart's Chill Between Repining New Enigmas Charades The Rose ("O Rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder")
The Trees' Counselling
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock"
"Gianni my friend and I both strove to excel"
The Offering of the New Law, the One Oblation once Offered The eleventh hour I know you not A Christmas Carol ("Before the paling of the stars")
Easter Even ("There is nothing more that they can do")
Come unto Me Ash Wednesday ("Jesus, do I love Thee?")
Spring Fancies
"Last Night"
Peter Grump/Forss Helen Grey If Seasons ("Oh the cheerful budding-time")
Henry Hardiman Within the Veil Paradise: in a Symbol
"In July"
"Love hath a name of Death"
"Tu scnedi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo"
"Alas my Lord"
An Alphabet Husband and Wife Michael F.M. Rossetti A Sick Child's Meditation
"Love is all happiness, love is all beauty"
"A handy Mole who plied no shovel"
"One swallow does not make a summer"
"Contemptuous of his home beyond"
A Word for the Dumb Cardinal Newman An Echo from Willowwood
"Yea, I Have a Goodly Heritage"
A Death of a First-born
"Faint, Yet Pursuing"
"What will it be, O my soul, what will it be"
"Lord, Thou art fulness, I am emptiness"
"O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee"
"Faith and Hope are wings to Love"
A Sorrowful Sigh of a Prisoner
"I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow"
"Passing away the bliss"
"Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest"
"Jesus alone: - if thus it were to me"
The Way of the World Books in the Running Brooks Gone Before
Privately Printed Poems
The Dead City The Water Spirit's Song The Song of the Star Summer ("Hark to the song of greeting! the tall trees!")
To my Mother on her Birthday The Ruined Cross Eva Love ephemeral Burial Anthem Sappho Tasso and Leonora On the Death of a Cat Mother and Child Fair Margaret Earth and Heaven Love attacked Love defended Divine and Human Pleading To My Friend Elizabeth Amore e Dovere Amore e Dispetto Love and Hope Serenade The Rose ("Gentle, gentle river")
Present and Future Will These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?
Sir Eustace Grey The Time of Waiting Charity The Dead Bride Life Out of Death The solitary Rose Lady Isabella ("Lady Isabella")
The Dream The Dying Man to his Betrothed The Martyr The End of Time Resurrection Eve Zara ("Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken")
Versi L'Incognita
"Purpurea rosa"
"Soul rudderless, unbraced"
"Animuccia, vagantuccia, morbiduccia"
Unpublished Poems
Heaven Hymn Corydon's Lament and Resolution Rosalind Pitia a Damone The Faithless Shepherdess Ariadne to Theseus On Albina A Hymn for Christmas Day Love and Death Despair Forget Me Not Easter Morning A Tirsi The Last Words of St. Telemachus Lord Thomas and fair Margaret Lines to my Grandfather Charade ("My first may be the firstborn")
Hope in Grief Lisetta all'Amante Song ("I saw her; she was lovely")
Praise of Love
"I have fought a good fight"
Wishes:/Sonnet Eleanor Isidora The Novice Immalee Lady Isabella ("Heart warm as Summer, fresh as Spring")
Night and Death
"Young men aye were fickle found/ Since summer trees were leafy"
The Lotus-Eaters:/Ulysses to Penelope Sonnet/from the Psalms Song ("The stream moaneth as it floweth")
A Counsel The World's Harmonies Lines/given with a Penwiper The last Answer One of the Dead
"The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint"
"I do set My bow in the cloud"
"O Death where is thy Sting?"
Undine Lady Montrevor Floral Teaching
"Death is swallowed up in Victory"
Death A Hopeless Case/(Nydia)
Ellen Middleton St. Andrew's Church Grown Cold/Sonnet Zara ("The pale sad face of her I wronged")
Ruin
"I sit among green shady valleys oft"
"Listen, and I will tell you of a face"
"Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown"
"I said, within myself: I am a fool"
"Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun"
"Strange voices sing among the planets which"
"Sleep, sleep happy one"
What Sappho would have said had her leap cured instead of killing her On Keats Have Patience To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy Sonnet ("Some say that love and joy are one: and so")
The last Complaint
Have you forgotten?
A Christmas Carol,/(on the stroke of Midnight)
For Advent Two Pursuits Looking forward Life hidden Queen Rose How one chose Seeking rest A Year Afterwards Two thoughts of Death Three Moments Once Three Nuns Song ("We buried her among the flowers")
The Watchers Annie ("Annie is fairer than her kith")
A Dirge ("She was sweet as violets in the Spring")
Song ("It is not for her even brow")
A Dream
"A fair World tho' a fallen"
Advent ("'Come,' Thou dost say to Angels")
All Saints ("They have brought good and spices to my King")
"Eye hath not seen"
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Moonshine
"The Summer is ended"
"I look for the Lord"
Song ("I have loved you for long long years Ellen")
A Discovery From the Antique ("The wind shall lull us yet") "The heart knoweth its own bitterness" ("Weep yet a while")
"To what purpose is this waste?")
Next of Kin
"Let them rejoice in their beds" ("The winds sing to us where we lie")
Portraits Whitsun Eve ("The white dove cooeth in her downy nest")
What?
A Pause Holy Innocents ("Sleep, little Baby, sleep")
"There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God" ("Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come")
Annie ("It's not for earthly bread, Annie")
Seasons ("In spring time when the leaves are young")
"Thou sleepest where the lilies fade"
"I wish I were a little bird"
(Two parted)
"All night I dream you love me well"
(For Rosaline's Album)
"Care flieth"
(Epitaph)
The P.R.B.
Seasons ("Crocuses and snowdrops wither")
"Who have a form of godliness"
Ballad A Study. (A Soul)
"There remaineth therefore a rest"
"Ye have forgotten the exhortation"
Guesses From the Antique ("It's a weary life, it is; she said")
Three Stages Long looked for Listening Zara ("I dreamed that loving me he would love on")
The last look
"I have a message unto thee"
Cobwebs Unforgotten An Afterthought To the end
"Zion said"
May ("Sweet Life is dead")
River Thames (?)
A chilly night
"Let patience have her perfect work" ("I saw a bird alone")
A Martyr ("It is over the horrible pain")
In the Lane Acme A bed of Forget-me-nots The Chiefest among ten thousand ("When sick of life and all the world")
"Look on this picture and on this"
"Now they desire"
A Christmas Carol,/for my Godchildren
"Not yours but you"
An Answer Sir Winter In an Artist's Studio Introspective
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness" ("When all the over-work of life")
"Reflection"
A Coast-Nightmare
"For one Sake"
My old Friends
"Yet a little while" ("These days are long before I die")
"Only believe"
"Rivals"/A Shadow of Saint Dorothea A Yawn For H.P.
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another"
"What good shall my life do me?" ("No hope in life; yet is there hope")
The Massacre of Perugia
"I have done with hope"
Promises like Piecrust By the waters of Babylon Better so Our widowed Queen In progress
"Out of the deep"
For a Mercy received Summer ("Come, cuckoo, come")
A Dumb Friend Margery In Patience Sunshine Meeting
"None with Him"
Under Willows A Sketch If I had Words What to do?
Young Death In a certain place
"Cannot sweeten"
Of my life
"Yes, I too could face death and never shrink"
"Would that I were a turnip white"
"I fancy the good fairies dressed in white"
"Some ladies dress in muslin full and white"
Autumn ("Fade tender lily")
IL ROSSEGGIAR DELL'ORIENTE
1. Amor dormente?
2. Amor Si sveglia?
3. Si rimanda la tocca-caldaja
4. "Blumine" risponde
5. "Lassu fia caro il rivederci"
6. Non son io la rosa ma vi stetti appresso"
7. "Lassuso il caro Fiore"
8. Sapessi pure!
9. Iddio c'illumini!
10. Amicizia:/"Sirocchia son d'Amor"
11. "Luscious and sorrowful"
12. "Oh forza irresistibile / Dell'umile preghiera"
13. Finestra mia orientale
14. (Eppure allora venivi)
15. Per Prefernza
16. Oggi
17. (Se fossi andata a Hastings)
18. Ripetizione
19. "Amico e pi- che amico mio"
20. "Nostre volunt¨¤ quieti Virt- di carit¨¤"
21. (Se cosi fosse)
BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE
"Remember, if I claim too much of you"
"Will you be there? my yearning heart has cried"
"In resurrection is it awfuller"
"I love you and you know it¡ªthis at least"
VALENTINES FROM C.G.R.
"Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved"
A Valentine, 1877
1878
1879
1880
St. Valentine's Day / 1881
A Valentine / 1882
February 14. 1883
1884
1885/ St. Valentine's Day
1886/ St. Valentine's Day
"Ah welladay and wherefore am I here?"
"Along the highroad the way is too long"
"And is this August weather? nay not so"
"From early dawn until the flush of noon"
"I seek among the living and I seek"
"O glorious sea that in each climbing wave"
"Oh thou who tell'st me that all hope is over"
"Surely there is an aching void within"
"The spring is come again not as at first"
"Who shall my wandering thoughts steady and fix"
"You who look on passed ages as a glass"
"Angeli al capo, al piede"
"Amami, t'amo"
"E babbo e mamma ha il nostro figliolino"
"S'addormento la nostra figliolina"
"Cuccuruc-! cuccuruc¨´!"
"Oibo, piccina"
"Otto ore suonano"
"Nel verno accanto al fuoco"
"Gran freddo ¨¨ infuori, e dentro ¨¨ freddo un poco"
"Scavai la neve, - si che scavai!"
"S¨¬ che il fratello s'ha un falconcello"
"Udite, si dolgono mesti fringuelli"
"Ahi culla vuota! ed ahi sepolcro pieno"
"Lugubre e vagabondo in terra e in mare"
"Aura dolcissima, ma donde siete?"
"Foss'io regina"
"Pesano rena e pena"
"Basta una notte a maturare il fungo"
"Porco la zucca"
"Salta, ranocchio, e mostrati"
"Spunta la margherita"
"Agnellina orfanellina"
"Amico pesce, piover vorr¨¤"
"Sposa velata"
"Cavalli marittimi"
"O marinaro che mi apporti tu?"
"Arrossisce la rosa: e perch¨¨ mai?"
"La rosa china il volto rosseggiato"
"O cilegia infiorita"
"In tema e in pena addio"
"D'un sonno profondissino"
"Ninna nanna, ninna nanna!"
"Capo che chinasi"
The Succession of Kings A true Story. (continued.)
"The two Rossettis (brothers they")
Imitated from the Arpa Evangelica: Page 121
"Mr. and Mrs. Scott, and I"
"Gone to his rest"
"O Uommibatto"
"Cor mio, cor mio"
"I said 'All's over' - & I made my"
"I said good bye in hope"
My Mouse
"Had Fortune parted us"
Counterblast on Penny Trumpet
"A roundel seems to fit a round of days"
"Heaven overarches earth and sea"
"Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over"
4th May morning
"'Quanto a Lei grata io sono'"
The Chinaman
"'Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer!'"
The Plague
"How many authors are my first!"
"Me you often meet"
"So I began my walk of life; no stop"
"So I grew half delirious and quite sick"
"On the note you do not send me"
Charon From Metastasio Chiesa e Signore Golden Holly
"I toiled on, but thou"
Cor Mio ("Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts")
"My old admiration before I was twenty"
To Mary Rossetti
"Ne' sogni ti veggo"
To my For-di-Lisa
"Hail, noble face of noble friend!"
Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines

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