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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.
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SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS.
  
“Her Seed; It shall bruise thy head.”
  
“Judge nothing before the time.”
  
[How great is little man!]
  
[Man's life is but a working day]
  
[If not with hope of life]
  
“The day is at hand.”
  
“Endure hardness.”
  
“Whither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord.”
  
[Where never tempest heaveth]
  
[Marvel of marvels, if I myself shall behold]
  
“What is that to thee? follow thou me.”
  
“Worship God.”
  
“Afterward he repented, and went.”
  
“Are they not all Ministering Spirits?”
  
[Our life is long. Not so, wise Angels say]
  
[Lord, what have I to offer? sickening fear]
  
[Joy is but sorrow]
  
[Can I know it?—Nay.—]
  
“When my heart is vexed I will complain.”
  
“Praying always.”
  
“As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
  
[A heavy heart, if ever heart was heavy]
  
[If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living]
  
[What is it Jesus saith unto the soul?]
  
[They lie at rest, our blessed dead]
  
“Ye that fear Him, both small and great.”
  
“Called to be Saints.”
  
[The sinner's own fault? So it was.]
  
[Who cares for earthly bread tho' white?]
  
[Laughing Life cries at the feast,—]
  
“The end is not yet.”
  
[Who would wish back the Saints upon our rough]
  
“That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is Man.”
  
[Of each sad word which is more sorrowful]
  
“I see that all things come to an end.”
  
“But Thy Commandment is exceeding broad.”
  
Sursam Corda.
  
[O ye, who are not dead and fit]
  
[Where shall I find a white rose blowing?—]
  
“Redeeming the Time.”
  
“Now they desire a Better Country.”
  
A CASTLE-BUILDER'S WORLD.
  
“These all wait upon Thee.”
  
“Doeth well . . . doeth better.”
  
[Our heaven must be within ourselves]
  
“Vanity of Vanities.”
  
[The hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walk]
  
[Scarce tolerable life, which all life long]
  
[All heaven is blazing yet]
  
“Balm in Gilead.”
  
“In the day of his Espousals.”
  
“She came from the uttermost part of the earth.”
  
[Alleluia! or Alas! my heart is crying]
  
[The Passion Flower hath sprung up tall]
  
God's Acre.
  
“The Flowers appear on the Earth.”
  
“Thou knewest . . . thou oughtest therefore.”
  
“Go in Peace.”
  
“Half dead.”
  
“One of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced His Side.”
  
[Where love is, there comes sorrow]
  
[Bury Hope out of sight]
  
A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope.
  
[One woe is past. Come what come will]
  
“Take no thought for the morrow.”
  
“Consider the Lilies of the field.”
  
“Son, remember.”
  
“Heaviness may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning.”
  
“The Will of the Lord be done.”
  
“Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven.”
  
“Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.”
  
“Then shall ye shout.”
  
[Everything that is born must die]
  
[Lord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth Thee]
  
Changing Chimes.
  
“Thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
  
[Thro' burden and heat of the day]
  
“Then I commended Mirth.”
  
[Shadows today, while shadows show God's Will.]
  
“Truly the Light is sweet.”
  
“Are ye not much better than they?”
  
“Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house.”
  
“I am small and of no reputation.”
  
[O Christ my God Who seest the unseen]
  
[Yea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy sword]
  
[Sweetness of rest when Thou sheddest rest]
  
[O foolish Soul! to make thy count]
  
[Before the beginning Thou hast foreknown the end]
  
[The goal in sight! Look up and sing]
  
[Looking back along life's trodden way]
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VOLUME III

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[Everything that is born must die]

Everything that is born must die;
Everything that can sigh may sing;
Rocks in equal balance, low or high,
Everything.
Honeycomb is weighed against a sting;
Hope and fear take turns to touch the sky;
Height and depth respond alternating.
O my soul, spread wings of love to fly,
Wings of dove that soars on home-bound wing:
Love trusts Love, till Love shall justify
Everything.
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