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The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti

A variorum edition: Edited, with textual notes and introductions, by R. W. Crump

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[“I dreamt I caught a little owl]

“I dreamt I caught a little owl
And the bird was blue—”
“But you may hunt for ever
And not find such an one.”
“I dreamt I set a sunflower,
And red as blood it grew—”
“But such a sunflower never
Bloomed beneath the sun.”