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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

A variorum edition: Edited, with textual notes and introductions, by R. W. Crump
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)

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VOLUME I
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VOLUME II
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I Sing-Song A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872)
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II Poems Added in Sing-Song A Nursery Rhyme Book (1893)
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III A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)
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IV Poems Added in Poems (1888)
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V Verses (1893)
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“OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD.”
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CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL.
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SOME FEASTS AND FASTS.
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GIFTS AND GRACES.
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THE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION.
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DIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNITY.
  
[Earth has clear call of daily bells]
  
“Escape to the Mountain.”
  
[I lift mine eyes to see: earth vanisheth.]
  
“Yet a little while.”
  
“Behold, it was very good.”
  
“Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.”
  
[This near-at-hand land breeds pain by measure]
  
“Was Thy Wrath against the Sea?”
  
“And there was no more Sea.”
  
[Roses on a brier]
  
[We are 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.”
  
“Then whose shall those things be?”
  
“His Banner over me was Love.”
  
[Beloved, yield thy time to God, for He]
  
[Time seems not short]
  
[The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness]
  
“As the Doves to their windows.”
  
[Oh knell of a passing time]
  
[Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain]
  
“The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him.”
  
[Time lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long]
  
“All Flesh is Grass.”
  
[Heaven's chimes are slow, but sure to strike at last]
  
“There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God.”
  
[Parting after parting]
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“They put their trust in Thee, and were not confounded.”
  
[Short is time, and only time is bleak]
  
For Each.
  
For All.
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NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS.
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SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.
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VOLUME III

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[The spring is come again not as at first]

The spring is come again not as at first
For then it was my spring; & now a brood
Of bitter memories haunt me, & my mood
Is much changed from the time when I was nursed
In the still country. Oh! my heart could burst
Thinking upon the long ago: the crude
Hopes all unrealised; the flowers that strewed
My path, now changed to painful thorns & curst.
And though I know the kingcups are as fine
As they were then, my spirit cannot soar
As it did once: when shadows of a wood
Or thinking of a blossom that soon should
Unfold & fill the air with scent, would pour
Peace on my brow now marked with many a line.
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