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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)
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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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[Gianni my friend and I both strove to excel]

Gianni my friend and I both strove to excel,
But, missing better, settled down in well.
Both fail, indeed; but not alike we fail—
My forte being Venus' face, and his a dragon's tail.
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