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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.
  
“The ransomed of the Lord.”
  
[Lord, we are rivers running to Thy sea]
  
“An exceeding bitter cry.”
  
[O Lord, when Thou didst call me, didst Thou know]
  
“Thou, God, seest me.”
  
[Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine?]
  
“The Name of Jesus.”
  
Song.
  
[Lord, carry me.—Nay, but I grant thee strength]
  
[Lord, I am here.—But, child, I look for thee]
  
[New creatures; the Creator still the Same]
  
“King of kings and Lord of lords.”
  
[Thy Name, O Christ, as incense streaming forth]
  
“The Good Shepherd.”
  
“Rejoice with Me.”
  
[Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?]
  
[Me and my gift: kind Lord, behold]
  
“He cannot deny Himself.”
  
“Slain from the foundation of the world.”
  
[Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soul]
  
[I, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small]
  
“Because He first loved us.”
  
[Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we]
  
[As the dove which found no rest]
  
“Thou art Fairer than the children of men.”
  
“As the Apple Tree among the trees of the wood.”
  
[None other Lamb, none other Name]
  
“Thy Friend and thy Father's Friend forget not.”
  
“Surely He hath borne our griefs.”
  
“They toil not, neither do they spin.”
  
[Darkness and light are both alike to Thee]
  
“And now why tarriest thou?”
  
[Have I not striven, my God, and watched and prayed?]
  
“God is our Hope and Strength.”
  
[Day and night the Accuser makes no pause]
  
[O mine enemy]
  
[Lord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I]
  
“Peace I leave with you.”
  
[O Christ our All in each, our All in all!]
  
[Because Thy Love hath sought me]
  
[Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse]
  
“Like as the hart desireth the water brooks.”
  
“That where I am, there ye may be also.”
  
“Judge not according to the appearance.”
  
[My God, wilt Thou accept, and will not we]
  
[A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea]
  
“The Chiefest among ten thousand.”
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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.
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SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.
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VOLUME III

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“Can these bones live?”—
“God knows:
The prophet saw such clothed with flesh and skin,
A wind blew on them and life entered in,
They shook and rose.
Hasten the time, O Lord, blot out their sin,
Let life begin.”
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