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Title: Poems

Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti

Release date: September 5, 2006 [eBook #19188]

Language: English

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POEMS.

BY

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1906.

AUTHOR'S EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

1876.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

MY MOTHER,

IN ALL REVERENCE AND LOVE,

I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK.

THE AUTHOR TO HER AMERICAN
READERS.

My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatory
words: either it will speak for itself, or all my additions
must fail to speak for it.

Its reappearance, however, in an American edition,
gives me a welcome opportunity of acknowledging the
courtesy and liberality of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, who
have arranged with me and with my kind friend and
publisher, Mr. Macmillan, to bring it before the American
public.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

London

CONTENTS.

GOBLIN MARKET, ETC.	Page
Goblin Market	3
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857	23
Dream-land	24
At Home	25
From Sunset to Star Rise	26
Love from the North	27
Winter Rain	29
A Dirge	30
Confluents	31
Noble Sisters	32
Spring	34
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860	36
A Birthday	37
Remember	38
After Death	39
An End	40
My Dream	41
Song	43
The Hour and the Ghost	43
A Summer Wish	46
An Apple Gathering	47
Song	48
Maude Clare	49
Echo	51
Winter: My Secret	52
Another Spring	53
A Peal of Bells	54
Fata Morgana	55
"No, thank you, John"	56
May	57
A Pause of Thought	58
Twilight Calm	59
Wife to Husband	61
Three Seasons	63
Mirage	63
Shut out	64
Sound Sleep	65
Song	66
Song	67
Dead before Death	68
Bitter for Sweet	68
"The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee"	69
Rest	70
The First Spring Day	70
The Convent Threshold	71
Uphill	77
DEVOTIONAL PIECES.
"The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge"	81
"A Bruised Reed shall he not Break"	82
A Better Resurrection	83
Advent	84
The Three Enemies	87
One Certainty	89
Christian and Jew	90
Sweet Death	93
Symbols	94
"Consider the Lilies of the Field"	95
The World	96
A Testimony	97
Sleep at Sea	100
From House to Home	103
Old and New Year Ditties	113
Amen	115
Mother Country	116
THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC.
The Prince's Progress	119
Maiden-Song	140
Jessie Cameron	148
Spring Quiet	153
The Poor Ghost	154
A Portrait	156
Dream-Love	157
Twice	160
Songs in a Cornfield	162
A Year's Windfalls	166
The Queen of Hearts	170
One Day	171
A Bird's-Eye View	172
"Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"	176
"To-day for Me"	177
On the Wing	179
Consider	180
Beauty is Vain	181
Maggie a Lady	182
What would I give	184
The Bourne	185
Summer	185
Autumn	187
The Ghost's Petition	189
Memory	193
A Royal Princess	195
Shall I Forget?	202
Vanity of Vanities	203
L. E. L.	204
Life and Death	206
Bird or Beast?	207
Eve	208
Grown and Flown	211
A Farm Walk	212
Somewhere or Other	215
A Chill	216
Child's Talk in April	217
Gone for Ever	219
Under the Rose	220
Song	239
By the Sea	240
Days of Vanity	240
Enrica, 1865	242
Once for All	243
Autumn Violets	243
"They Desire a Better Country"	244
A Green Cornfield	246
A Bride Song	247
The Lowest Room	249
Dead Hope	261
A Daughter of Eve	261
Venus' Looking-Glass	262
Love lies Bleeding	263
Bird Raptures	263
My Friend	264
Twilight Night	265
A Bird Song	266
A Smile and a Sigh	267
DEVOTIONAL PIECES.
Amor Mundi	267
A Christmas Carol	269
By the Waters of Babylon	271
Paradise	274
"I will lift up mine Eyes unto the Hills"	276
Saints and Angels	278
"When my Heart is Vexed, I will Complain"	280
After Communion	281
A Rose Plant in Jericho	282
Who shall Deliver Me?	283
Despised and Rejected	287
Long Barren	289
If Only	290
Dost thou not Care?	291
Weary in Well-Doing	292
Martyrs' Song	293
After this the Judgment	296
Good Friday	299
The Lowest Place	300

A PAGEANT AND OTHER POEMS.
The Key-Note	11
The Months: A Pageant	13
Pastime	33
"Italia, io ti saluto!"	34
Mirrors of Life and Death	35
A Ballad of Boding	42
Yet a little while	52
He and She	53
Monna Innominata	54
"Luscious and Sorrowful"	69
De Profundis	70
Tempus fugit	71
Golden Glories	72
Johnny	73
"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"	77
Maiden May	79
Till To-morrow	84
Death-Watches	85
Touching "Never"	86
Brandons both	87
A Life's Parallels	92
At Last	93
Golden Silences	94
In the Willow Shade	95
Fluttered Wings	99
A Fisher-Wife	100
What's in a Name?	101
Mariana	103
Memento Mori	104
"One Foot on Sea, and one on Shore"	105
Buds and Babies	107
Boy Johnny	108
Freaks of Fashion	109
An October Garden	113
Summer is ended	114
Passing and Glassing	115
"I will arise"	117
A Prodigal Son	119
Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde	120
An "immurata" Sister	122
"If Thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not"	124
The Thread of Life	127
An Old-World Thicket	130
"All Thy Works praise Thee, O Lord"	140
Later Life	154
"For Thine own Sake, O my God"	182
Until the Day break	183
"Of Him that was ready to perish"	185
"Behold the Man!"	187
The Descent from the Cross	188
"It is finished"	189
An Easter Carol	192
"Behold a shaking"	194
All Saints	196
"Take care of him"	199
A Martyr	201
Why?	207
"Love is strong as Death"	208
Birchington Churchyard	209
One Sea-side Grave	210
Brother Bruin	211
"A Helpmeet for him"	214
A Song of Flight	215
A Wintry Sonnet	216
Resurgam	217
To-day's Burden	218
"There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"	219
Exultate Deo	220
A Hope Carol	221
Christmas Carols	223
A Candlemas Dialogue	228
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary	230
Patience of Hope	231

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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poems

POEMS.

BY

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

CONTENTS.

GOBLIN MARKET, ETC.

DEVOTIONAL PIECES.

THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC.

DEVOTIONAL PIECES.

A PAGEANT AND OTHER POEMS.