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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.
  
[Love loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth Thee]
  
[Lord, give me love that I may love Thee much]
  
“As a king, . . . . unto the King.”
  
[O ye who love today]
  
[Life that was born today]
  
“Perfect Love casteth out Fear.”
  
[Hope is the counterpoise of fear]
  
“Subject to like Passions as we are.”
  
[Experience bows a sweet contented face]
  
“Charity never Faileth.”
  
“The Greatest of these is Charity.”
  
[All beneath the sun hasteth]
  
[If thou be dead, forgive and thou shalt live]
  
“Let Patience have her perfect work.”
  
[Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow]
  
“Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.”
  
[What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love still.]
  
[Lord, make me pure]
  
[Love, to be love, must walk Thy way]
  
[Lord, I am feeble and of mean account]
  
[Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony]
  
“They shall be as white as snow.”
  
[Thy lilies drink the dew]
  
“When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord.”
  
[Grant us such grace that we may work Thy Will]
  
“Who hath despised the day of small things?”
  
“Do this, and he doeth it.”
  
“That no man take thy Crown.”
  
“Ye are come unto Mount Sion.”
  
“Sit down in the lowest room.”
  
“Lord, it is good for us to be here.”
  
[Lord, grant us grace to rest upon Thy word]
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THE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION.
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DIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNITY.
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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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[Lord, I am here.—But, child, I look for thee]

Lord, I am here.—But, child, I look for thee
Elsewhere and nearer Me.—
Lord, that way moans a wide insatiate sea:
How can I come to Thee?—
Set foot upon the water, test and see
If thou canst come to Me.—
Couldst Thou not send a boat to carry me,
Or dolphin swimming free?—
Nay, boat nor fish if thy will faileth thee:
For My Will too is free.—
O Lord, I am afraid.—Take hold on Me:
I am stronger than the sea.—
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Save, Lord, I perish.—I have hold of thee,
I made and rule the sea,
I bring thee to the haven where thou wouldst be.
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