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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)
  
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]
  
THE KEY-NOTE.
  
THE MONTHS: A PAGEANT.
  
PASTIME.
  
“ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!”
  
MIRRORS OF LIFE AND DEATH.
  
A BALLAD OF BODING.
  
YET A LITTLE WHILE.
  
HE AND SHE.
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MONNA INNOMINATA.
  
“LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL.”
  
DE PROFUNDIS.
  
TEMPUS FUGIT.
  
GOLDEN GLORIES.
  
JOHNNY.
  
“HOLLOW-SOUNDING AND MYSTERIOUS.”
  
MAIDEN MAY.
  
TILL TOMORROW.
  
DEATH-WATCHES.
  
TOUCHING “NEVER.”
  
BRANDONS BOTH.
  
A LIFE'S PARALLELS.
  
AT LAST.
  
GOLDEN SILENCES.
  
IN THE WILLOW SHADE.
  
FLUTTERED WINGS.
  
A FISHER-WIFE.
  
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
  
MARIANA.
  
MEMENTO MORI.
  
“ONE FOOT ON SEA, AND ONE ON SHORE.”
  
BUDS AND BABIES.
  
BOY JOHNNY.
  
FREAKS OF FASHION.
  
AN OCTOBER GARDEN.
  
“SUMMER IS ENDED.”
  
PASSING AND GLASSING.
  
“I WILL ARISE.”
  
A PRODIGAL SON.
  
SOEUR LOUISE DE LA MISÉRICORDE. (1674.)
  
AN “IMMURATA” SISTER.
  
[poem]
  
THE THREAD OF LIFE.
  
AN OLD-WORLD THICKET.
  
“ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE, O LORD.” A PROCESSIONAL OF CREATION.
  
LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS.
  
“FOR THINE OWN SAKE, O MY GOD.”
  
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.
  
“OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH.”
  
“BEHOLD THE MAN!”
  
THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.
  
“IT IS FINISHED.”
  
AN EASTER CAROL.
  
“BEHOLD A SHAKING.”
  
ALL SAINTS.
  
“TAKE CARE OF HIM.”
  
A MARTYR.
  
WHY?
  
“LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH.”
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IV Poems Added in Poems (1888)
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V Verses (1893)
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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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