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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.
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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.
  
“The Holy City, New Jerusalem.”
  
[When wickedness is broken as a tree]
  
[Jerusalem of fire]
  
“She shall be brought unto the King.”
  
[Who is this that cometh up not alone]
  
[Who sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a Bride]
  
Antipas.
  
“Beautiful for situation.”
  
[Lord, by what inconceivable dim road]
  
“As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.”
  
[Cast down but not destroyed, chastened not slain]
  
[Lift up thine eyes to seek the invisible]
  
“Love is strong as Death.”
  
“Let them rejoice in their beds.”
  
[Slain in their high places: fallen on rest]
  
“What hath God wrought!”
  
“Before the Throne, and before the Lamb.”
  
“He shall go no more out.”
  
[Yea, blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection!]
  
[The joy of Saints, like incense turned to fire]
  
[What are these lovely ones, yea, what are these?]
  
“The General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn.”
  
“Every one that is perfect shall be as his master.”
  
[“As dying, and behold we live!”]
  
“So great a cloud of Witnesses.”
  
[Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful]
  
[Safe where I cannot lie yet]
  
“Is it well with the child?”
  
[Dear Angels and dear disembodied Saints]
  
“To every seed his own body.”
  
“What good shall my life do me?”
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SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.
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VOLUME III

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[Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful]

Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful;
Our Sisters, gracious in their life and death;
To us each unforgotten memory saith:
“Learn as we learned in life's sufficient school,
Work as we worked in patience of our rule,
Walk as we walked, much less by sight than faith,
Hope as we hoped, despite our slips and scathe,
Fearful in joy and confident in dule.”
I know not if they see us or can see;
But if they see us in our painful day,
How looking back to earth from Paradise
Do tears not gather in those loving eyes?—
Ah, happy eyes! whose tears are wiped away
Whether or not you bear to look on me.
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