Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was educated at home and shared her family's intellectual interests. Ill-health ended her work as a governess and later made her an invalid. Her poetry was first published in 1850 in the Pre-Raphaelite magazine, The Germ, and several volumes of poetry followed, demonstrating an extraordinary emotional and technical range.Betty Sue Flowers is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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• Text by R. W. Crump with an Introduction and Notes by Betty S. FlowersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingGoblin Market and Other Poems (1862)Goblin MarketIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857Dream-LandAt HomeA TriadLove from the NorthWinter RainCousin KateNoble SistersSpringThe Lambs of Grasmere, 1860A BirthdayRememberAfter DeathAn EndMy DreamSong ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")The Hour and the GhostA Summer WishAn Apple-GatheringSong ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")Maude ClareEchoWinter: My SecretAnother SpringA Peal of BellsFata Morgana"No, Thank You, John"May ("I cannot tell you how it was")A Pause of ThoughtTwilight CalmWife to HusbandThree SeasonsMirageShut OutSound SleepSong ("She sat and sang alway")Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")Dead Before DeathBitter for SweetSister MaudeRestThe First Spring DayThe Convent ThresholdUp-Hill[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]"The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge""A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"A Better ResurrectionAdvent ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")The Three EnemiesOne CertaintyChristian and Jew/A DialogueSweet DeathSymbols"Consider the Lilies of the Field" ("Flowers preach to us if we will hear")The WorldA TestimonySleep at SeaFrom House to HomeOld and New Year DittiesAmenThe Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)The Prince's ProgressMaiden-SongJessie CameronSpring QuietThe Poor GhostA PortraitDream-LoveTwiceSongs in a CornfieldA Year's WindfallsThe Queen of HeartsOne DayA Bird's-Eye ViewLight LoveOn the WingA Ring PosyBeauty Is VainMaggie a LadyWhat Would I Give?The BourneSummer ("Winter is cold-hearted")Autumn ("I dwell alone—I dwell alone, alone")The Ghost's PetitionMemoryA Royal PrincessShall I Forget?Vanity of Vanities ("Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain")L. E. L.Life and DeathBird or Beast?EveGrown and FlownA Farm WalkSomewhere or OtherA ChillChild's Talk in AprilGone for Ever"The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children"[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]Despised and RejectedLong BarrenIf OnlyDost Thou Not Care?Weary in Well-DoingMartyrs' SongAfter This the JudgmentGood Friday ("Am I a stone and not a sheep")The Lowest PlacePoems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)By the SeaFrom Sunset to Star RiseDays of VanityOnce for All/(Margaret)Enrica, 1865Autumn VioletsA Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling")"They Desire a Better Country"A Green CornfieldA Bride SongConfluentsThe Lowest RoomDead HopeA Daughter of EveSong ("Oh what comes over the sea")Venus's Looking-GlassLove Lies BleedingBird RapturesMy FriendTwilight NightA Bird SongA Smile and a SighAmor MundiThe German-French Campaign/1870-1871: 1. "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"; 2. "Today for Me"A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")ConsiderBy the Waters of Babylon/B.C. 570ParadiseMother 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 CommunionSaints and AngelsA Rose Plant in JerichoSing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookAngels at the footLove me, - I love youMy baby has a father and a motherOut little baby fell asleep"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"Baby cryEight o'clockBread and milk for breakfastThere's snow on the fieldsDead in the cold, a song-singing thrushI dug and dug amongst the snowA city plum is not a plumYour brother has a falconHear what the mournful linnets sayA baby's cradle with no baby in itHop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack HornerHope is like a harebell trembling from its birthO wind, why do you never restCrying, my little one, footsore and wearyGrowing in the valeA linnet in a gilded cageWrens and robins in the hedgeMy baby has a mottled fistWhy did baby dieIf all were rain and never sunO wind, where have you beenOn the grassy banksRushes in a watery placeMinnie and MattieHeartease in my garden bedIf I were a QueenWhat are heavy? sea-sand and sorrowThere is but one May in the yearThe summer nights are shortThe days are clearTwist me a crown of wind-flowersBrown and furryA toadstoll comes up in a nightA pocket hankerchief to hemIf a pig wore a wigSeldom "can't"1 and 1 are 2How many seconds in a minuteWhat will you give me for my poundJanuary cold desolateWhat is pink? a rose is pinkMother shake the cherry-treeA pin has a head, but has no hairHopping frog, hop here and be seenWhere innocent bright-eyed daisies areThe city mouse lives in a houseWhat does the donkey bray aboutThree plum bunsA motherless soft lambkinDancing on the hill-topsWhen fishes set umbrellas upThe peacock has a score of eyesPussy has a whiskered faceThe dog lies in his kennelIf hope grew on a bushI planted a handUnder the ivy bushThere is one that has a head without an eyeIf a mouse could flySing me a songThe lily has an airMargaret has a milking-pailIn the meadow - what in the meadowA frisky lambMix a pancakeThe wind has such a rainy soundThree little childrenFly away, fly away over the seaMinnie bakes oaten cakesA white hen sittingCurrants on a bushI have but one rose in the worldRosy maiden WinifredWhen the cows come home the milk is comingRoses blushing red and white"Ding a ding"A ring upon her finger"Ferry me across the water"When a mounting skylark singsWho has seen the windThe horses of the seaO sailor, come ashoreA diamond or a coalAn emerald is green as grassBoats sail on the riversThe lily has a smooth stalkHurt no living thingI caught a little ladybirdAll the bells were ringingWee wee husbandI have a little husbandThe dear old woman in the laneSwift and sure the swallow"I dreamt I caught a little owl"What does the bee doI have a Poll parrotA house of cardsThe rose with such a bonny blushThe rose that blushes rosy redOh fair to seeClever little Willie weeThe peach tree on the southern wallA rose has thorns as well as honeyIs the moon tired? she looks so paleIf stars dropped out of heaven"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"If the sun could tell us halfIf the moon came from heavenO Lady Moon, your horns point toward the eastWhat do the stars doMotherless baby and babyless motherCrimson curtains round my mother's bedBaby lies so fast asleepI know a baby, such a babyLullaby, oh lullabyLie a-bedPoems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookBrownie, Brownie, let down your milkSroke a flint, and there is nothing to admireI am a KingPlaying at bob cherryBlind from my birthA Pageant and Other Poems (1881)Sonnets are full of love, and this my tomeThe Key-NoteThe Months/A PageantPastime"Italia, Io Ti Saluto!"Mirrors of Life and DeathA Ballad of BodingYet a Little While ("I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek")He and SheMonna Innominata"Luscious and Sorrowful" ("Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow")De ProfundisTempus FugitGolden GloriesJohnny"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"Maiden MayTill TomorrowDeath-WatchesTouching "Never"Brandons BothA Life's ParallelsAt LastGolden SilencesIn the Willow ShadeFluttered WingsA Fisher-WifeWhat's in a Name?MarianaMemento Mori"One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore"Buds and BabiesBoy JohnnyFreaks of FashionAn October Garden"Summer Is Ended"Passing and Glassing"I Will Arise"A Prodigal SonSoeur Louise de la MisericordeAn "Immurata" Sister"If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not"The Thread of LifeAn Old-World Thicket"All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord"/A Processional of CreationLater 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 FeastWhy?"Love Is Strong as Death" ("I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee")Poems Added in Poems (1888, 1890)Birchington ChurchyardOne Sea-Side GraveBrother Bruin"A Helpmeet for Him"A Song of FlightA Wintry SonnetResurgamToday's Burden"There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"Exultate DeoA Hope CarolChristmas Carols: "Whoso hears a chiming for Christmas in the nighest"; "A holy, heavenly chime"; Lo! newborn JesusA Candlemas DialogueMary Magdalene and the Other Mary/A Song for XII MariesPatience of HopeVerses (1893)"OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD"Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peaceSeven 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 meetO Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy FaceIt is not death, O Christ, to die for TheeLord, 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 righteouslyLord, grant me grace to love Thee in my painLord, 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 HighLord, what have I that I may offer TheeIf I should say "my heart is in my home"Leaf from leaf Christ knowsLord, carry me. - Nay, but I grant thee strengthLord, I am here. - But, child, I look for theeNew 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 rightMe and my gift: kind Lord, behold"He cannot deny Himself""Slain from the foundation of the world"Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soulI, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small"Because He first loved us"Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not weAs 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 pauseO mine enemyLord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I"Peace I leave with you"O Christ our All in each, our All in allBecause Thy Love hath sought meThy 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 weA chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea"The Chiefest among ten thousand" ("O Jesu, better than thy gifts")Some Feasts and FastsAdvent SundayAdvent ("Earth grown old, yet still so green")Sooner or later: yet at lastChristmas EveChristmas DayChristmastideSt. John, Apostle"Beloved, let us love one another," says St. JohnHoly Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept")Unspotted lambs to follow the one LambEpiphanyEpiphanytideSeptuagesimaSexagesimaThat Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vieQuinquagesimaPiteous my rhyme isAsh Wednesday ("My God, my God, have mercy on my sin")Good Lord, todayLentEmbertideMid-LentPassiontidePalm SundayMonday in Holy WeekTuesday in Holy WeekWednesday in Holy WeekMaundy ThursdayGood Friday MorningGood 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 twigsEaster DayEaster MondayEaster TuesdayRogationtideAscension EveAscension DayWhitsun Eve ("'As many as I love.' - Ah, Lord, Who lovest all")Whitsun DayWhitsun MondayWhitsun TuesdayTrinity SundayConversion of St. PaulIn weariness and painfulness St. PaulVigil of the PresentationFeast of the PresentationThe Purification of St. Mary the VirginVigil of the AnnunciationFeast of the AnnunciationHerself a rose, who bore the RoseSt. MarkSt. BarnabasVigil of St. PeterSt. PeterSt. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"I followed Thee, my God, I followed TheeVigil of St. BartholomewSt. Michael and All AngelsVigil of All SaintsAll 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 salvationA Song for the Least of All SaintsSunday before AdventGIFTS AND GRACESLove loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth TheeLord, give me love that I may love Thee much"As a king,....unto the King"O ye who love todayLife 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 hastethIf 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 stillLord, make me pureLove, to be love, must walk Thy wayLord, I am feeble and of mean accountTune 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 wordTHE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION"A vain Shadow""Lord, save us, we perish"What is this above thy headBabylon the Great"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment""O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"Alas, alas! for the self-destroyedAs froth on the face of the deep"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flyingDIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNTIYEarth 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 brierWe 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 HeTime seems not shortThe half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness"As the Doves to their windows"Oh knell of a passing timeTime 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 bleakFor EachFor AllNEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS"The Holy City, New Jerusalem"When wickedness is broken as a treeJerusalem of fire"She shall be brought unto the King"Who is this that cometh up not aloneWho sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a brideAntipas"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 slainLift 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 ResurrectionThe joy of Saints, like incense turned to fireWhat 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 pitifulSafe 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 manMan's life is but a working dayIf 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 heavethMarvel 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 sayLord, what have I to offer? sickening farJoy is but sorrowCan 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 heavyIf love is not worth loving, then life is not worth livingWhat is it Jesus saith unto the soulThey 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 wasWho 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 CordaO ye,who are not dead and fitWhere 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 walkScarce tolerable life, which all life longAll 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 cryingThe Passion Flower hath sprung up tallGod'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 sorrowBury Hope out of sightA Churchyard Song of Patient HopeOne 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 dieLord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth TheeChanging 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 voiceShadows 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 unseenYea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy swordSweetness of rest when Thou sheddest restO foolish Soul! to make thy countBefore the beginning Thou hast foreknown the endThe goal in sigh! Look up and singLooking back along life's trodden waySeparately Published PoemsDeath's Chill BetweenHeart's Chill BetweenRepiningNew EnigmasCharadesThe 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 OfferedThe eleventh hourI know you notA Christmas Carol ("Before the paling of the stars")Easter Even ("There is nothing more that they can do")Come unto MeAsh Wednesday ("Jesus, do I love Thee?")Spring Fancies"Last Night"Peter Grump/ForssHelen GreyIfSeasons ("Oh the cheerful budding-time")Henry HardimanWithin the VeilParadise: in a Symbol"In July""Love hath a name of Death""Tu scnedi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo""Alas my Lord"An AlphabetHusband and WifeMichael F.M. RossettiA 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 DumbCardinal NewmanAn 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 WorldBooks in the Running BrooksGone BeforePrivately Printed PoemsThe Dead CityThe Water Spirit's SongThe Song of the StarSummer ("Hark to the song of greeting! the tall trees!")To my Mother on her BirthdayThe Ruined CrossEvaLove ephemeralBurial AnthemSapphoTasso and LeonoraOn the Death of a CatMother and ChildFair MargaretEarth and HeavenLove attackedLove defendedDivine and Human PleadingTo My Friend ElizabethAmore e DovereAmore e DispettoLove and HopeSerenadeThe Rose ("Gentle, gentle river")Present and FutureWill These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?Sir Eustace GreyThe Time of WaitingCharityThe Dead BrideLife Out of DeathThe solitary RoseLady Isabella ("Lady Isabella")The DreamThe Dying Man to his BetrothedThe MartyrThe End of TimeResurrection EveZara ("Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken")VersiL'Incognita"Purpurea rosa""Soul rudderless, unbraced""Animuccia, vagantuccia, morbiduccia"Unpublished PoemsHeavenHymnCorydon's Lament and ResolutionRosalindPitia a DamoneThe Faithless ShepherdessAriadne to TheseusOn AlbinaA Hymn for Christmas DayLove and DeathDespairForget Me NotEaster MorningA TirsiThe Last Words of St. TelemachusLord Thomas and fair MargaretLines to my GrandfatherCharade ("My first may be the firstborn")Hope in GriefLisetta all'AmanteSong ("I saw her; she was lovely")Praise of Love"I have fought a good fight"Wishes:/SonnetEleanorIsidoraThe NoviceImmaleeLady 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 PenelopeSonnet/from the PsalmsSong ("The stream moaneth as it floweth")A CounselThe World's HarmoniesLines/given with a PenwiperThe last AnswerOne 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?"UndineLady MontrevorFloral Teaching"Death is swallowed up in Victory"DeathA Hopeless Case/(Nydia)Ellen MiddletonSt. Andrew's ChurchGrown Cold/SonnetZara ("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 herOn KeatsHave PatienceTo Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvySonnet ("Some say that love and joy are one: and so")The last ComplaintHave you forgotten?A Christmas Carol,/(on the stroke of Midnight)For AdventTwo PursuitsLooking forwardLife hiddenQueen RoseHow one choseSeeking restA Year AfterwardsTwo thoughts of DeathThree MomentsOnceThree NunsSong ("We buried her among the flowers")The WatchersAnnie ("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 HungaryMoonshine"The Summer is ended""I look for the Lord"Song ("I have loved you for long long years Ellen")A DiscoveryFrom 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")PortraitsWhitsun Eve ("The white dove cooeth in her downy nest")What?A PauseHoly 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"BalladA Study. (A Soul)"There remaineth therefore a rest""Ye have forgotten the exhortation"GuessesFrom the Antique ("It's a weary life, it is; she said")Three StagesLong looked forListeningZara ("I dreamed that loving me he would love on")The last look"I have a message unto thee"CobwebsUnforgottenAn AfterthoughtTo 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 LaneAcmeA bed of Forget-me-notsThe 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 AnswerSir WinterIn an Artist's StudioIntrospective"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 DorotheaA YawnFor 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 PiecrustBy the waters of BabylonBetter soOur widowed QueenIn progress"Out of the deep"For a Mercy receivedSummer ("Come, cuckoo, come")A Dumb FriendMargeryIn PatienceSunshineMeeting"None with Him"Under WillowsA SketchIf I had WordsWhat to do?Young DeathIn 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'ORIENTE1. Amor dormente?2. Amor Si sveglia?3. Si rimanda la tocca-caldaja4. "Blumine" risponde5. "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 orientale14. (Eppure allora venivi)15. Per Prefernza16. Oggi17. (Se fossi andata a Hastings)18. Ripetizione19. "Amico e più che amico mio"20. "Nostre voluntà quieti Virtù di carità"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--this at least"VALENTINES FROM C.G.R."Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved"A Valentine, 1877187818791880St. Valentine's Day / 1881A Valentine / 1882February 14. 188318841885/ St. Valentine's Day1886/ 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""Cuccurucù! cuccurucù!" "Oibo, piccina""Otto ore suonano""Nel verno accanto al fuoco""Gran freddo è infuori, e dentro è freddo un poco""Scavai la neve, - si che scavai!""Sì 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 vorrà""Sposa velata""Cavalli marittimi""O marinaro che mi apporti tu?""Arrossisce la rosa: e perchè 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 KingsA 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"CharonFrom MetastasioChiesa e SignoreGolden 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!"NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was educated at home and shared her family's intellectual interests. Ill-health ended her work as a governess and later made her an invalid. Her poetry was first published in 1850 in the Pre-Raphaelite magazine, The Germ, and several volumes of poetry followed, demonstrating an extraordinary emotional and technical range.Betty Sue Flowers is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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FlowersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingGoblin Market and Other Poems (1862)Goblin MarketIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857Dream-LandAt HomeA TriadLove from the NorthWinter RainCousin KateNoble SistersSpringThe Lambs of Grasmere, 1860A BirthdayRememberAfter DeathAn EndMy DreamSong ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")The Hour and the GhostA Summer WishAn Apple-GatheringSong ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")Maude ClareEchoWinter: My SecretAnother SpringA Peal of BellsFata Morgana"No, Thank You, John"May ("I cannot tell you how it was")A Pause of ThoughtTwilight CalmWife to HusbandThree SeasonsMirageShut OutSound SleepSong ("She sat and sang alway")Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")Dead Before DeathBitter for SweetSister MaudeRestThe First Spring DayThe Convent ThresholdUp-Hill[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]"The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge""A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"A Better ResurrectionAdvent ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")The Three EnemiesOne CertaintyChristian and Jew/A DialogueSweet DeathSymbols"Consider the Lilies of the Field" ("Flowers preach to us if we will hear")The WorldA TestimonySleep at SeaFrom House to HomeOld and New Year DittiesAmenThe Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)The Prince's ProgressMaiden-SongJessie CameronSpring QuietThe Poor GhostA PortraitDream-LoveTwiceSongs in a CornfieldA Year's WindfallsThe Queen of HeartsOne DayA Bird's-Eye ViewLight LoveOn the WingA Ring PosyBeauty Is VainMaggie a LadyWhat Would I Give?The BourneSummer ("Winter is cold-hearted")Autumn ("I dwell alone—I dwell alone, alone")The Ghost's PetitionMemoryA Royal PrincessShall I Forget?Vanity of Vanities ("Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain")L. E. L.Life and DeathBird or Beast?EveGrown and FlownA Farm WalkSomewhere or OtherA ChillChild's Talk in AprilGone for Ever"The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children"[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]Despised and RejectedLong BarrenIf OnlyDost Thou Not Care?Weary in Well-DoingMartyrs' SongAfter This the JudgmentGood Friday ("Am I a stone and not a sheep")The Lowest PlacePoems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)By the SeaFrom Sunset to Star RiseDays of VanityOnce for All/(Margaret)Enrica, 1865Autumn VioletsA Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling")"They Desire a Better Country"A Green CornfieldA Bride SongConfluentsThe Lowest RoomDead HopeA Daughter of EveSong ("Oh what comes over the sea")Venus's Looking-GlassLove Lies BleedingBird RapturesMy FriendTwilight NightA Bird SongA Smile and a SighAmor MundiThe German-French Campaign/1870-1871: 1. "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"; 2. "Today for Me"A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")ConsiderBy the Waters of Babylon/B.C. 570ParadiseMother 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 CommunionSaints and AngelsA Rose Plant in JerichoSing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookAngels at the footLove me, - I love youMy baby has a father and a motherOut little baby fell asleep"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"Baby cryEight o'clockBread and milk for breakfastThere's snow on the fieldsDead in the cold, a song-singing thrushI dug and dug amongst the snowA city plum is not a plumYour brother has a falconHear what the mournful linnets sayA baby's cradle with no baby in itHop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack HornerHope is like a harebell trembling from its birthO wind, why do you never restCrying, my little one, footsore and wearyGrowing in the valeA linnet in a gilded cageWrens and robins in the hedgeMy baby has a mottled fistWhy did baby dieIf all were rain and never sunO wind, where have you beenOn the grassy banksRushes in a watery placeMinnie and MattieHeartease in my garden bedIf I were a QueenWhat are heavy? sea-sand and sorrowThere is but one May in the yearThe summer nights are shortThe days are clearTwist me a crown of wind-flowersBrown and furryA toadstoll comes up in a nightA pocket hankerchief to hemIf a pig wore a wigSeldom "can't"1 and 1 are 2How many seconds in a minuteWhat will you give me for my poundJanuary cold desolateWhat is pink? a rose is pinkMother shake the cherry-treeA pin has a head, but has no hairHopping frog, hop here and be seenWhere innocent bright-eyed daisies areThe city mouse lives in a houseWhat does the donkey bray aboutThree plum bunsA motherless soft lambkinDancing on the hill-topsWhen fishes set umbrellas upThe peacock has a score of eyesPussy has a whiskered faceThe dog lies in his kennelIf hope grew on a bushI planted a handUnder the ivy bushThere is one that has a head without an eyeIf a mouse could flySing me a songThe lily has an airMargaret has a milking-pailIn the meadow - what in the meadowA frisky lambMix a pancakeThe wind has such a rainy soundThree little childrenFly away, fly away over the seaMinnie bakes oaten cakesA white hen sittingCurrants on a bushI have but one rose in the worldRosy maiden WinifredWhen the cows come home the milk is comingRoses blushing red and white"Ding a ding"A ring upon her finger"Ferry me across the water"When a mounting skylark singsWho has seen the windThe horses of the seaO sailor, come ashoreA diamond or a coalAn emerald is green as grassBoats sail on the riversThe lily has a smooth stalkHurt no living thingI caught a little ladybirdAll the bells were ringingWee wee husbandI have a little husbandThe dear old woman in the laneSwift and sure the swallow"I dreamt I caught a little owl"What does the bee doI have a Poll parrotA house of cardsThe rose with such a bonny blushThe rose that blushes rosy redOh fair to seeClever little Willie weeThe peach tree on the southern wallA rose has thorns as well as honeyIs the moon tired? she looks so paleIf stars dropped out of heaven"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"If the sun could tell us halfIf the moon came from heavenO Lady Moon, your horns point toward the eastWhat do the stars doMotherless baby and babyless motherCrimson curtains round my mother's bedBaby lies so fast asleepI know a baby, such a babyLullaby, oh lullabyLie a-bedPoems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookBrownie, Brownie, let down your milkSroke a flint, and there is nothing to admireI am a KingPlaying at bob cherryBlind from my birthA Pageant and Other Poems (1881)Sonnets are full of love, and this my tomeThe Key-NoteThe Months/A PageantPastime"Italia, Io Ti Saluto!"Mirrors of Life and DeathA Ballad of BodingYet a Little While ("I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek")He and SheMonna Innominata"Luscious and Sorrowful" ("Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow")De ProfundisTempus FugitGolden GloriesJohnny"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"Maiden MayTill TomorrowDeath-WatchesTouching "Never"Brandons BothA Life's ParallelsAt LastGolden SilencesIn the Willow ShadeFluttered WingsA Fisher-WifeWhat's in a Name?MarianaMemento Mori"One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore"Buds and BabiesBoy JohnnyFreaks of FashionAn October Garden"Summer Is Ended"Passing and Glassing"I Will Arise"A Prodigal SonSoeur Louise de la MisericordeAn "Immurata" Sister"If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not"The Thread of LifeAn Old-World Thicket"All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord"/A Processional of CreationLater 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 FeastWhy?"Love Is Strong as Death" ("I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee")Poems Added in Poems (1888, 1890)Birchington ChurchyardOne Sea-Side GraveBrother Bruin"A Helpmeet for Him"A Song of FlightA Wintry SonnetResurgamToday's Burden"There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"Exultate DeoA Hope CarolChristmas Carols: "Whoso hears a chiming for Christmas in the nighest"; "A holy, heavenly chime"; Lo! newborn JesusA Candlemas DialogueMary Magdalene and the Other Mary/A Song for XII MariesPatience of HopeVerses (1893)"OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD"Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peaceSeven 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 meetO Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy FaceIt is not death, O Christ, to die for TheeLord, 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 righteouslyLord, grant me grace to love Thee in my painLord, 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 HighLord, what have I that I may offer TheeIf I should say "my heart is in my home"Leaf from leaf Christ knowsLord, carry me. - Nay, but I grant thee strengthLord, I am here. - But, child, I look for theeNew 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 rightMe and my gift: kind Lord, behold"He cannot deny Himself""Slain from the foundation of the world"Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soulI, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small"Because He first loved us"Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not weAs 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 pauseO mine enemyLord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I"Peace I leave with you"O Christ our All in each, our All in allBecause Thy Love hath sought meThy 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 weA chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea"The Chiefest among ten thousand" ("O Jesu, better than thy gifts")Some Feasts and FastsAdvent SundayAdvent ("Earth grown old, yet still so green")Sooner or later: yet at lastChristmas EveChristmas DayChristmastideSt. John, Apostle"Beloved, let us love one another," says St. JohnHoly Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept")Unspotted lambs to follow the one LambEpiphanyEpiphanytideSeptuagesimaSexagesimaThat Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vieQuinquagesimaPiteous my rhyme isAsh Wednesday ("My God, my God, have mercy on my sin")Good Lord, todayLentEmbertideMid-LentPassiontidePalm SundayMonday in Holy WeekTuesday in Holy WeekWednesday in Holy WeekMaundy ThursdayGood Friday MorningGood 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 twigsEaster DayEaster MondayEaster TuesdayRogationtideAscension EveAscension DayWhitsun Eve ("'As many as I love.' - Ah, Lord, Who lovest all")Whitsun DayWhitsun MondayWhitsun TuesdayTrinity SundayConversion of St. PaulIn weariness and painfulness St. PaulVigil of the PresentationFeast of the PresentationThe Purification of St. Mary the VirginVigil of the AnnunciationFeast of the AnnunciationHerself a rose, who bore the RoseSt. MarkSt. BarnabasVigil of St. PeterSt. PeterSt. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"I followed Thee, my God, I followed TheeVigil of St. BartholomewSt. Michael and All AngelsVigil of All SaintsAll 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 salvationA Song for the Least of All SaintsSunday before AdventGIFTS AND GRACESLove loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth TheeLord, give me love that I may love Thee much"As a king,....unto the King"O ye who love todayLife 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 hastethIf 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 stillLord, make me pureLove, to be love, must walk Thy wayLord, I am feeble and of mean accountTune 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 wordTHE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION"A vain Shadow""Lord, save us, we perish"What is this above thy headBabylon the Great"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment""O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"Alas, alas! for the self-destroyedAs froth on the face of the deep"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flyingDIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNTIYEarth 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 brierWe 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 HeTime seems not shortThe half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness"As the Doves to their windows"Oh knell of a passing timeTime 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 bleakFor EachFor AllNEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS"The Holy City, New Jerusalem"When wickedness is broken as a treeJerusalem of fire"She shall be brought unto the King"Who is this that cometh up not aloneWho sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a brideAntipas"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 slainLift 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 ResurrectionThe joy of Saints, like incense turned to fireWhat 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 pitifulSafe 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 manMan's life is but a working dayIf 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 heavethMarvel 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 sayLord, what have I to offer? sickening farJoy is but sorrowCan 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 heavyIf love is not worth loving, then life is not worth livingWhat is it Jesus saith unto the soulThey 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 wasWho 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 CordaO ye,who are not dead and fitWhere 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 walkScarce tolerable life, which all life longAll 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 cryingThe Passion Flower hath sprung up tallGod'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 sorrowBury Hope out of sightA Churchyard Song of Patient HopeOne 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 dieLord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth TheeChanging 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 voiceShadows 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 unseenYea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy swordSweetness of rest when Thou sheddest restO foolish Soul! to make thy countBefore the beginning Thou hast foreknown the endThe goal in sigh! Look up and singLooking back along life's trodden waySeparately Published PoemsDeath's Chill BetweenHeart's Chill BetweenRepiningNew EnigmasCharadesThe 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 OfferedThe eleventh hourI know you notA Christmas Carol ("Before the paling of the stars")Easter Even ("There is nothing more that they can do")Come unto MeAsh Wednesday ("Jesus, do I love Thee?")Spring Fancies"Last Night"Peter Grump/ForssHelen GreyIfSeasons ("Oh the cheerful budding-time")Henry HardimanWithin the VeilParadise: in a Symbol"In July""Love hath a name of Death""Tu scnedi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo""Alas my Lord"An AlphabetHusband and WifeMichael F.M. RossettiA 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 DumbCardinal NewmanAn 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 WorldBooks in the Running BrooksGone BeforePrivately Printed PoemsThe Dead CityThe Water Spirit's SongThe Song of the StarSummer ("Hark to the song of greeting! the tall trees!")To my Mother on her BirthdayThe Ruined CrossEvaLove ephemeralBurial AnthemSapphoTasso and LeonoraOn the Death of a CatMother and ChildFair MargaretEarth and HeavenLove attackedLove defendedDivine and Human PleadingTo My Friend ElizabethAmore e DovereAmore e DispettoLove and HopeSerenadeThe Rose ("Gentle, gentle river")Present and FutureWill These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?Sir Eustace GreyThe Time of WaitingCharityThe Dead BrideLife Out of DeathThe solitary RoseLady Isabella ("Lady Isabella")The DreamThe Dying Man to his BetrothedThe MartyrThe End of TimeResurrection EveZara ("Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken")VersiL'Incognita"Purpurea rosa""Soul rudderless, unbraced""Animuccia, vagantuccia, morbiduccia"Unpublished PoemsHeavenHymnCorydon's Lament and ResolutionRosalindPitia a DamoneThe Faithless ShepherdessAriadne to TheseusOn AlbinaA Hymn for Christmas DayLove and DeathDespairForget Me NotEaster MorningA TirsiThe Last Words of St. TelemachusLord Thomas and fair MargaretLines to my GrandfatherCharade ("My first may be the firstborn")Hope in GriefLisetta all'AmanteSong ("I saw her; she was lovely")Praise of Love"I have fought a good fight"Wishes:/SonnetEleanorIsidoraThe NoviceImmaleeLady 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 PenelopeSonnet/from the PsalmsSong ("The stream moaneth as it floweth")A CounselThe World's HarmoniesLines/given with a PenwiperThe last AnswerOne 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?"UndineLady MontrevorFloral Teaching"Death is swallowed up in Victory"DeathA Hopeless Case/(Nydia)Ellen MiddletonSt. Andrew's ChurchGrown Cold/SonnetZara ("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 herOn KeatsHave PatienceTo Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvySonnet ("Some say that love and joy are one: and so")The last ComplaintHave you forgotten?A Christmas Carol,/(on the stroke of Midnight)For AdventTwo PursuitsLooking forwardLife hiddenQueen RoseHow one choseSeeking restA Year AfterwardsTwo thoughts of DeathThree MomentsOnceThree NunsSong ("We buried her among the flowers")The WatchersAnnie ("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 HungaryMoonshine"The Summer is ended""I look for the Lord"Song ("I have loved you for long long years Ellen")A DiscoveryFrom 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")PortraitsWhitsun Eve ("The white dove cooeth in her downy nest")What?A PauseHoly 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"BalladA Study. (A Soul)"There remaineth therefore a rest""Ye have forgotten the exhortation"GuessesFrom the Antique ("It's a weary life, it is; she said")Three StagesLong looked forListeningZara ("I dreamed that loving me he would love on")The last look"I have a message unto thee"CobwebsUnforgottenAn AfterthoughtTo 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 LaneAcmeA bed of Forget-me-notsThe 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 AnswerSir WinterIn an Artist's StudioIntrospective"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 DorotheaA YawnFor 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 PiecrustBy the waters of BabylonBetter soOur widowed QueenIn progress"Out of the deep"For a Mercy receivedSummer ("Come, cuckoo, come")A Dumb FriendMargeryIn PatienceSunshineMeeting"None with Him"Under WillowsA SketchIf I had WordsWhat to do?Young DeathIn 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'ORIENTE1. Amor dormente?2. Amor Si sveglia?3. Si rimanda la tocca-caldaja4. "Blumine" risponde5. "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 orientale14. (Eppure allora venivi)15. Per Prefernza16. Oggi17. (Se fossi andata a Hastings)18. Ripetizione19. "Amico e più che amico mio"20. "Nostre voluntà quieti Virtù di carità"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--this at least"VALENTINES FROM C.G.R."Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved"A Valentine, 1877187818791880St. Valentine's Day / 1881A Valentine / 1882February 14. 188318841885/ St. Valentine's Day1886/ 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""Cuccurucù! cuccurucù!" "Oibo, piccina""Otto ore suonano""Nel verno accanto al fuoco""Gran freddo è infuori, e dentro è freddo un poco""Scavai la neve, - si che scavai!""Sì 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 vorrà""Sposa velata""Cavalli marittimi""O marinaro che mi apporti tu?""Arrossisce la rosa: e perchè 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 KingsA 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"CharonFrom MetastasioChiesa e SignoreGolden 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!"NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), sister of the poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was educated at home and shared her family's intellectual interests. Ill-health ended her work as a governess and later made her an invalid. Her poetry was first published in 1850 in the Pre-Raphaelite magazine, The Germ, and several volumes of poetry followed, demonstrating an extraordinary emotional and technical range.Betty Sue Flowers is Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

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FlowersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingGoblin Market and Other Poems (1862)Goblin MarketIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857Dream-LandAt HomeA TriadLove from the NorthWinter RainCousin KateNoble SistersSpringThe Lambs of Grasmere, 1860A BirthdayRememberAfter DeathAn EndMy DreamSong ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")The Hour and the GhostA Summer WishAn Apple-GatheringSong ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")Maude ClareEchoWinter: My SecretAnother SpringA Peal of BellsFata Morgana"No, Thank You, John"May ("I cannot tell you how it was")A Pause of ThoughtTwilight CalmWife to HusbandThree SeasonsMirageShut OutSound SleepSong ("She sat and sang alway")Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")Dead Before DeathBitter for SweetSister MaudeRestThe First Spring DayThe Convent ThresholdUp-Hill[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]"The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge""A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"A Better ResurrectionAdvent ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")The Three EnemiesOne CertaintyChristian and Jew/A DialogueSweet DeathSymbols"Consider the Lilies of the Field" ("Flowers preach to us if we will hear")The WorldA TestimonySleep at SeaFrom House to HomeOld and New Year DittiesAmenThe Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)The Prince's ProgressMaiden-SongJessie CameronSpring QuietThe Poor GhostA PortraitDream-LoveTwiceSongs in a CornfieldA Year's WindfallsThe Queen of HeartsOne DayA Bird's-Eye ViewLight LoveOn the WingA Ring PosyBeauty Is VainMaggie a LadyWhat Would I Give?The BourneSummer ("Winter is cold-hearted")Autumn ("I dwell alone—I dwell alone, alone")The Ghost's PetitionMemoryA Royal PrincessShall I Forget?Vanity of Vanities ("Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain")L. E. L.Life and DeathBird or Beast?EveGrown and FlownA Farm WalkSomewhere or OtherA ChillChild's Talk in AprilGone for Ever"The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children"[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]Despised and RejectedLong BarrenIf OnlyDost Thou Not Care?Weary in Well-DoingMartyrs' SongAfter This the JudgmentGood Friday ("Am I a stone and not a sheep")The Lowest PlacePoems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)By the SeaFrom Sunset to Star RiseDays of VanityOnce for All/(Margaret)Enrica, 1865Autumn VioletsA Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling")"They Desire a Better Country"A Green CornfieldA Bride SongConfluentsThe Lowest RoomDead HopeA Daughter of EveSong ("Oh what comes over the sea")Venus's Looking-GlassLove Lies BleedingBird RapturesMy FriendTwilight NightA Bird SongA Smile and a SighAmor MundiThe German-French Campaign/1870-1871: 1. "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"; 2. "Today for Me"A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")ConsiderBy the Waters of Babylon/B.C. 570ParadiseMother 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 CommunionSaints and AngelsA Rose Plant in JerichoSing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookAngels at the footLove me, - I love youMy baby has a father and a motherOut little baby fell asleep"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"Baby cryEight o'clockBread and milk for breakfastThere's snow on the fieldsDead in the cold, a song-singing thrushI dug and dug amongst the snowA city plum is not a plumYour brother has a falconHear what the mournful linnets sayA baby's cradle with no baby in itHop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack HornerHope is like a harebell trembling from its birthO wind, why do you never restCrying, my little one, footsore and wearyGrowing in the valeA linnet in a gilded cageWrens and robins in the hedgeMy baby has a mottled fistWhy did baby dieIf all were rain and never sunO wind, where have you beenOn the grassy banksRushes in a watery placeMinnie and MattieHeartease in my garden bedIf I were a QueenWhat are heavy? sea-sand and sorrowThere is but one May in the yearThe summer nights are shortThe days are clearTwist me a crown of wind-flowersBrown and furryA toadstoll comes up in a nightA pocket hankerchief to hemIf a pig wore a wigSeldom "can't"1 and 1 are 2How many seconds in a minuteWhat will you give me for my poundJanuary cold desolateWhat is pink? a rose is pinkMother shake the cherry-treeA pin has a head, but has no hairHopping frog, hop here and be seenWhere innocent bright-eyed daisies areThe city mouse lives in a houseWhat does the donkey bray aboutThree plum bunsA motherless soft lambkinDancing on the hill-topsWhen fishes set umbrellas upThe peacock has a score of eyesPussy has a whiskered faceThe dog lies in his kennelIf hope grew on a bushI planted a handUnder the ivy bushThere is one that has a head without an eyeIf a mouse could flySing me a songThe lily has an airMargaret has a milking-pailIn the meadow - what in the meadowA frisky lambMix a pancakeThe wind has such a rainy soundThree little childrenFly away, fly away over the seaMinnie bakes oaten cakesA white hen sittingCurrants on a bushI have but one rose in the worldRosy maiden WinifredWhen the cows come home the milk is comingRoses blushing red and white"Ding a ding"A ring upon her finger"Ferry me across the water"When a mounting skylark singsWho has seen the windThe horses of the seaO sailor, come ashoreA diamond or a coalAn emerald is green as grassBoats sail on the riversThe lily has a smooth stalkHurt no living thingI caught a little ladybirdAll the bells were ringingWee wee husbandI have a little husbandThe dear old woman in the laneSwift and sure the swallow"I dreamt I caught a little owl"What does the bee doI have a Poll parrotA house of cardsThe rose with such a bonny blushThe rose that blushes rosy redOh fair to seeClever little Willie weeThe peach tree on the southern wallA rose has thorns as well as honeyIs the moon tired? she looks so paleIf stars dropped out of heaven"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"If the sun could tell us halfIf the moon came from heavenO Lady Moon, your horns point toward the eastWhat do the stars doMotherless baby and babyless motherCrimson curtains round my mother's bedBaby lies so fast asleepI know a baby, such a babyLullaby, oh lullabyLie a-bedPoems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookBrownie, Brownie, let down your milkSroke a flint, and there is nothing to admireI am a KingPlaying at bob cherryBlind from my birthA Pageant and Other Poems (1881)Sonnets are full of love, and this my tomeThe Key-NoteThe Months/A PageantPastime"Italia, Io Ti Saluto!"Mirrors of Life and DeathA Ballad of BodingYet a Little While ("I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek")He and SheMonna Innominata"Luscious and Sorrowful" ("Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow")De ProfundisTempus FugitGolden GloriesJohnny"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"Maiden MayTill TomorrowDeath-WatchesTouching "Never"Brandons BothA Life's ParallelsAt LastGolden SilencesIn the Willow ShadeFluttered WingsA Fisher-WifeWhat's in a Name?MarianaMemento Mori"One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore"Buds and BabiesBoy JohnnyFreaks of FashionAn October Garden"Summer Is Ended"Passing and Glassing"I Will Arise"A Prodigal SonSoeur Louise de la MisericordeAn "Immurata" Sister"If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not"The Thread of LifeAn Old-World Thicket"All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord"/A Processional of CreationLater 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 FeastWhy?"Love Is Strong as Death" ("I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee")Poems Added in Poems (1888, 1890)Birchington ChurchyardOne Sea-Side GraveBrother Bruin"A Helpmeet for Him"A Song of FlightA Wintry SonnetResurgamToday's Burden"There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"Exultate DeoA Hope CarolChristmas Carols: "Whoso hears a chiming for Christmas in the nighest"; "A holy, heavenly chime"; Lo! newborn JesusA Candlemas DialogueMary Magdalene and the Other Mary/A Song for XII MariesPatience of HopeVerses (1893)"OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD"Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peaceSeven 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 meetO Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy FaceIt is not death, O Christ, to die for TheeLord, 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 righteouslyLord, grant me grace to love Thee in my painLord, 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 HighLord, what have I that I may offer TheeIf I should say "my heart is in my home"Leaf from leaf Christ knowsLord, carry me. - Nay, but I grant thee strengthLord, I am here. - But, child, I look for theeNew 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 rightMe and my gift: kind Lord, behold"He cannot deny Himself""Slain from the foundation of the world"Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soulI, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small"Because He first loved us"Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not weAs 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 pauseO mine enemyLord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I"Peace I leave with you"O Christ our All in each, our All in allBecause Thy Love hath sought meThy 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 weA chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea"The Chiefest among ten thousand" ("O Jesu, better than thy gifts")Some Feasts and FastsAdvent SundayAdvent ("Earth grown old, yet still so green")Sooner or later: yet at lastChristmas EveChristmas DayChristmastideSt. John, Apostle"Beloved, let us love one another," says St. JohnHoly Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept")Unspotted lambs to follow the one LambEpiphanyEpiphanytideSeptuagesimaSexagesimaThat Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vieQuinquagesimaPiteous my rhyme isAsh Wednesday ("My God, my God, have mercy on my sin")Good Lord, todayLentEmbertideMid-LentPassiontidePalm SundayMonday in Holy WeekTuesday in Holy WeekWednesday in Holy WeekMaundy ThursdayGood Friday MorningGood 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 twigsEaster DayEaster MondayEaster TuesdayRogationtideAscension EveAscension DayWhitsun Eve ("'As many as I love.' - Ah, Lord, Who lovest all")Whitsun DayWhitsun MondayWhitsun TuesdayTrinity SundayConversion of St. PaulIn weariness and painfulness St. PaulVigil of the PresentationFeast of the PresentationThe Purification of St. Mary the VirginVigil of the AnnunciationFeast of the AnnunciationHerself a rose, who bore the RoseSt. MarkSt. BarnabasVigil of St. PeterSt. PeterSt. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"I followed Thee, my God, I followed TheeVigil of St. BartholomewSt. Michael and All AngelsVigil of All SaintsAll 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 salvationA Song for the Least of All SaintsSunday before AdventGIFTS AND GRACESLove loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth TheeLord, give me love that I may love Thee much"As a king,....unto the King"O ye who love todayLife 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 hastethIf 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 stillLord, make me pureLove, to be love, must walk Thy wayLord, I am feeble and of mean accountTune 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 wordTHE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION"A vain Shadow""Lord, save us, we perish"What is this above thy headBabylon the Great"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment""O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"Alas, alas! for the self-destroyedAs froth on the face of the deep"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flyingDIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNTIYEarth 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 brierWe 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 HeTime seems not shortThe half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness"As the Doves to their windows"Oh knell of a passing timeTime 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 bleakFor EachFor AllNEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS"The Holy City, New Jerusalem"When wickedness is broken as a treeJerusalem of fire"She shall be brought unto the King"Who is this that cometh up not aloneWho sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a brideAntipas"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 slainLift 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 ResurrectionThe joy of Saints, like incense turned to fireWhat 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 pitifulSafe 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 manMan's life is but a working dayIf 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 heavethMarvel 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 sayLord, what have I to offer? sickening farJoy is but sorrowCan 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 heavyIf love is not worth loving, then life is not worth livingWhat is it Jesus saith unto the soulThey 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 wasWho 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 CordaO ye,who are not dead and fitWhere 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 walkScarce tolerable life, which all life longAll 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 cryingThe Passion Flower hath sprung up tallGod'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 sorrowBury Hope out of sightA Churchyard Song of Patient HopeOne 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 dieLord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth TheeChanging 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 voiceShadows 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 unseenYea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy swordSweetness of rest when Thou sheddest restO foolish Soul! to make thy countBefore the beginning Thou hast foreknown the endThe goal in sigh! Look up and singLooking back along life's trodden waySeparately Published PoemsDeath's Chill BetweenHeart's Chill BetweenRepiningNew EnigmasCharadesThe 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 OfferedThe eleventh hourI know you notA Christmas Carol ("Before the paling of the stars")Easter Even ("There is nothing more that they can do")Come unto MeAsh Wednesday ("Jesus, do I love Thee?")Spring Fancies"Last Night"Peter Grump/ForssHelen GreyIfSeasons ("Oh the cheerful budding-time")Henry HardimanWithin the VeilParadise: in a Symbol"In July""Love hath a name of Death""Tu scnedi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo""Alas my Lord"An AlphabetHusband and WifeMichael F.M. RossettiA 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 DumbCardinal NewmanAn 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 WorldBooks in the Running BrooksGone BeforePrivately Printed PoemsThe Dead CityThe Water Spirit's SongThe Song of the StarSummer ("Hark to the song of greeting! the tall trees!")To my Mother on her BirthdayThe Ruined CrossEvaLove ephemeralBurial AnthemSapphoTasso and LeonoraOn the Death of a CatMother and ChildFair MargaretEarth and HeavenLove attackedLove defendedDivine and Human PleadingTo My Friend ElizabethAmore e DovereAmore e DispettoLove and HopeSerenadeThe Rose ("Gentle, gentle river")Present and FutureWill These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?Sir Eustace GreyThe Time of WaitingCharityThe Dead BrideLife Out of DeathThe solitary RoseLady Isabella ("Lady Isabella")The DreamThe Dying Man to his BetrothedThe MartyrThe End of TimeResurrection EveZara ("Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken")VersiL'Incognita"Purpurea rosa""Soul rudderless, unbraced""Animuccia, vagantuccia, morbiduccia"Unpublished PoemsHeavenHymnCorydon's Lament and ResolutionRosalindPitia a DamoneThe Faithless ShepherdessAriadne to TheseusOn AlbinaA Hymn for Christmas DayLove and DeathDespairForget Me NotEaster MorningA TirsiThe Last Words of St. TelemachusLord Thomas and fair MargaretLines to my GrandfatherCharade ("My first may be the firstborn")Hope in GriefLisetta all'AmanteSong ("I saw her; she was lovely")Praise of Love"I have fought a good fight"Wishes:/SonnetEleanorIsidoraThe NoviceImmaleeLady 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 PenelopeSonnet/from the PsalmsSong ("The stream moaneth as it floweth")A CounselThe World's HarmoniesLines/given with a PenwiperThe last AnswerOne 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?"UndineLady MontrevorFloral Teaching"Death is swallowed up in Victory"DeathA Hopeless Case/(Nydia)Ellen MiddletonSt. Andrew's ChurchGrown Cold/SonnetZara ("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 herOn KeatsHave PatienceTo Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvySonnet ("Some say that love and joy are one: and so")The last ComplaintHave you forgotten?A Christmas Carol,/(on the stroke of Midnight)For AdventTwo PursuitsLooking forwardLife hiddenQueen RoseHow one choseSeeking restA Year AfterwardsTwo thoughts of DeathThree MomentsOnceThree NunsSong ("We buried her among the flowers")The WatchersAnnie ("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 HungaryMoonshine"The Summer is ended""I look for the Lord"Song ("I have loved you for long long years Ellen")A DiscoveryFrom 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")PortraitsWhitsun Eve ("The white dove cooeth in her downy nest")What?A PauseHoly 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"BalladA Study. (A Soul)"There remaineth therefore a rest""Ye have forgotten the exhortation"GuessesFrom the Antique ("It's a weary life, it is; she said")Three StagesLong looked forListeningZara ("I dreamed that loving me he would love on")The last look"I have a message unto thee"CobwebsUnforgottenAn AfterthoughtTo 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 LaneAcmeA bed of Forget-me-notsThe 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 AnswerSir WinterIn an Artist's StudioIntrospective"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 DorotheaA YawnFor 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 PiecrustBy the waters of BabylonBetter soOur widowed QueenIn progress"Out of the deep"For a Mercy receivedSummer ("Come, cuckoo, come")A Dumb FriendMargeryIn PatienceSunshineMeeting"None with Him"Under WillowsA SketchIf I had WordsWhat to do?Young DeathIn 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'ORIENTE1. Amor dormente?2. Amor Si sveglia?3. Si rimanda la tocca-caldaja4. "Blumine" risponde5. "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 orientale14. (Eppure allora venivi)15. Per Prefernza16. Oggi17. (Se fossi andata a Hastings)18. Ripetizione19. "Amico e più che amico mio"20. "Nostre voluntà quieti Virtù di carità"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--this at least"VALENTINES FROM C.G.R."Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved"A Valentine, 1877187818791880St. Valentine's Day / 1881A Valentine / 1882February 14. 188318841885/ St. Valentine's Day1886/ 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""Cuccurucù! cuccurucù!" "Oibo, piccina""Otto ore suonano""Nel verno accanto al fuoco""Gran freddo è infuori, e dentro è freddo un poco""Scavai la neve, - si che scavai!""Sì 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 vorrà""Sposa velata""Cavalli marittimi""O marinaro che mi apporti tu?""Arrossisce la rosa: e perchè 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 KingsA 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"CharonFrom MetastasioChiesa e SignoreGolden 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!"NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines