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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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I Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862)
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II The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)
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III Poems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III

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VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS.

I marked where lovely Venus and her court
With song and dance and merry laugh went by;
Weightless, their wingless feet seemed made to fly,
Bound from the ground and in mid air to sport.
Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort,
Tracking their goddess with a wistful eye,
Around whose head white doves rose, wheeling high
Or low, and cooed after their tender sort.
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All this I saw in Spring. Thro' Summer heat
I saw the lovely Queen of Love no more.
But when flushed Autumn thro' the woodlands went
I spied sweet Venus walk amid the wheat:
Whom seeing, every harvester gave o'er
His toil, and laughed and hoped and was content.
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