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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)
  
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]
  
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.
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MONNA INNOMINATA.
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“LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL.”
  
DE PROFUNDIS.
  
TEMPUS FUGIT.
  
GOLDEN GLORIES.
  
JOHNNY.
  
“HOLLOW-SOUNDING AND MYSTERIOUS.”
  
MAIDEN MAY.
  
TILL TOMORROW.
  
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. (1674.)
  
AN “IMMURATA” SISTER.
  
[poem]
  
THE THREAD OF LIFE.
  
AN OLD-WORLD THICKET.
  
“ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE, O LORD.” A PROCESSIONAL OF CREATION.
  
LATER 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.
  
“TAKE CARE OF HIM.”
  
A MARTYR.
  
WHY?
  
“LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH.”
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IV Poems Added in Poems (1888)
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V Verses (1893)
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VOLUME III

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“HOLLOW-SOUNDING AND MYSTERIOUS.”

There's no replying
To the Wind's sighing,
Telling, foretelling,
Dying, undying,
Dwindling and swelling,
Complaining, droning,
Whistling and moaning,
Ever beginning,
Ending, repeating,
Hinting and dinning,
Lagging and fleeting—
We've no replying
Living or dying
To the Wind's sighing.
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What are you telling,
Variable Wind-tone?
What would be teaching,
O sinking, swelling,
Desolate Wind-moan?
Ever for ever
Teaching and preaching,
Never, ah never
Making us wiser—
The earliest riser
Catches no meaning,
The last who hearkens
Garners no gleaning
Of wisdom's treasure,
While the world darkens:—
Living or dying,
In pain, in pleasure,
We've no replying
To wordless flying
Wind's sighing.
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