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Title: PoemsAuthor: Christina Georgina RossettiRelease date: September 5, 2006 [eBook #19188]Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Steven desJardins, Jeffrey Johnson and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Title: Poems
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Release date: September 5, 2006 [eBook #19188]
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Steven desJardins, Jeffrey Johnson and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
BOSTON:LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.1906.
AUTHOR'S EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED
1876.
University Press:John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
TO
MY MOTHER,IN ALL REVERENCE AND LOVE,
I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK.
THE AUTHOR TO HER AMERICANREADERS.My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatorywords: either it will speak for itself, or all my additionsmust fail to speak for it.Its reappearance, however, in an American edition,gives me a welcome opportunity of acknowledging thecourtesy and liberality of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, whohave arranged with me and with my kind friend andpublisher, Mr. Macmillan, to bring it before the Americanpublic.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.
London
Page
Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-land
At Home
From Sunset to Star Rise
Love from the North
Winter Rain
A Dirge
Confluents
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
"No, thank you, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song
Song
Dead before Death
Bitter for Sweet
"The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee"
Rest
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Uphill
"The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge"
"A Bruised Reed shall he not Break"
A Better Resurrection
Advent
The Three Enemies
One Certainty
Christian and Jew
Sweet Death
Symbols
"Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The World
A Testimony
Sleep at Sea
From House to Home
Old and New Year Ditties
Amen
Mother Country
The Prince's Progress
Maiden-Song
Jessie Cameron
Spring Quiet
The Poor Ghost
A Portrait
Dream-Love
Twice
Songs in a Cornfield
A Year's Windfalls
The Queen of Hearts
One Day
A Bird's-Eye View
"Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"
"To-day for Me"
On the Wing
Consider
Beauty is Vain
Maggie a Lady
What would I give
The Bourne
Summer
Autumn
The Ghost's Petition
Memory
A Royal Princess
Shall I Forget?
Vanity of Vanities
L. E. L.
Life and Death
Bird or Beast?
Eve
Grown and Flown
A Farm Walk
Somewhere or Other
A Chill
Child's Talk in April
Gone for Ever
Under the Rose
Song
By the Sea
Days of Vanity
Enrica, 1865
Once for All
Autumn Violets
"They Desire a Better Country"
A Green Cornfield
A Bride Song
The Lowest Room
Dead Hope
A Daughter of Eve
Venus' Looking-Glass
Love lies Bleeding
Bird Raptures
My Friend
Twilight Night
A Bird Song
A Smile and a Sigh
Amor Mundi
A Christmas Carol
By the Waters of Babylon
Paradise
"I will lift up mine Eyes unto the Hills"
Saints and Angels
"When my Heart is Vexed, I will Complain"
After Communion
A Rose Plant in Jericho
Who shall Deliver Me?
Despised and Rejected
Long Barren
If Only
Dost thou not Care?
Weary in Well-Doing
Martyrs' Song
After this the Judgment
Good Friday
The Lowest Place
The Key-Note
The Months: A Pageant
Pastime
"Italia, io ti saluto!"
Mirrors of Life and Death
A Ballad of Boding
Yet a little while
He and She
Monna Innominata
"Luscious and Sorrowful"
De Profundis
Tempus fugit
Golden Glories
Johnny
"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"
Maiden May
Till To-morrow
Death-Watches
Touching "Never"
Brandons both
A Life's Parallels
At Last
Golden Silences
In the Willow Shade
Fluttered Wings
A Fisher-Wife
What's in a Name?
Mariana
Memento Mori
"One Foot on Sea, and one on Shore"
Buds and Babies
Boy Johnny
Freaks of Fashion
An October Garden
Summer is ended
Passing and Glassing
"I will arise"
A Prodigal Son
Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde
An "immurata" Sister
"If Thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not"
The Thread of Life
An Old-World Thicket
"All Thy Works praise Thee, O Lord"
Later Life
"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
"Take care of him"
A Martyr
Why?
"Love is strong as Death"
Birchington Churchyard
One Sea-side Grave
Brother Bruin
"A Helpmeet for him"
A Song of Flight
A Wintry Sonnet
Resurgam
To-day's Burden
"There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"
Exultate Deo
A Hope Carol
Christmas Carols
A Candlemas Dialogue
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
Patience of Hope