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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)
  
GOBLIN MARKET.
  
IN THE ROUND TOWER AT JHANSI, JUNE 8, 1857.
  
DREAM-LAND.
  
AT HOME.
  
A TRIAD.
  
LOVE FROM THE NORTH.
  
WINTER RAIN.
  
COUSIN KATE.
  
NOBLE SISTERS.
  
SPRING.
  
THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860.
  
A BIRTHDAY.
  
REMEMBER.
  
AFTER DEATH.
  
AN END.
  
MY DREAM.
  
SONG.
  
THE HOUR AND THE GHOST.
  
A SUMMER WISH.
  
AN APPLE-GATHERING.
  
SONG.
  
MAUDE CLARE.
  
ECHO.
  
WINTER: MY SECRET.
  
ANOTHER SPRING.
  
A PEAL OF BELLS.
  
FATA MORGANA.
  
“NO, THANK YOU, JOHN.”
  
MAY.
  
A PAUSE OF THOUGHT.
  
TWILIGHT CALM.
  
WIFE TO HUSBAND.
  
THREE SEASONS.
  
MIRAGE.
  
SHUT OUT.
  
SOUND SLEEP.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
DEAD BEFORE DEATH.
  
BITTER FOR SWEET.
  
SISTER MAUDE.
  
REST.
  
THE FIRST SPRING DAY.
  
THE CONVENT THRESHOLD.
  
UP-HILL.
  
“THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE.”
  
“A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK.”
  
A BETTER RESURRECTION.
  
ADVENT.
  
THE THREE ENEMIES.
  
ONE CERTAINTY.
  
CHRISTIAN AND JEW. A DIALOGUE.
  
SWEET DEATH.
  
SYMBOLS.
  
“CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD.”
  
THE WORLD.
  
A TESTIMONY.
  
SLEEP AT SEA.
  
FROM HOUSE TO HOME.
  
OLD AND NEW YEAR DITTIES.
  
AMEN.
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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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[Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we]

Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we
Love Thee with heart and mind and strength and soul,
Desiring Thee beyond our glorious goal,
Beyond the heaven of heavens desiring Thee?
Each saint, all saints cry out: Yea me, yea me,
Thou hast desired beyond an aureole,
Beyond Thy many Crowns, beyond the whole
Ninety and nine unwandering family.
Souls in green pastures of the watered land,
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Faint pilgrim souls wayfaring thro' the sand,
Abide with Thee and in Thee are at rest:
Yet evermore, kind Lord, renew Thy quest
After new wanderers; such as once Thy Hand
Gathered, Thy Shoulders bore, Thy Heart caressed.
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