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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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I Separately Published Poems

DEATH'S CHILL BETWEEN.

HEART'S CHILL BETWEEN.

The Trees' Counselling.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock.”

[Gianni my friend and I both strove to excel]

The Offering of the New Law, the One Oblation once Offered.

The eleventh hour.

I know you not.

A Christmas Carol.

SPRING FANCIES.

“LAST NIGHT.”

HENRY HARDIMAN,

Within the Veil.

Paradise: in a Symbol.

[Love hath a name of Death]

Husband and Wife.

MICHAEL F. M. ROSSETTI.

A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION

[Love is all happiness, love is all beauty]

[A handy Mole who plied no shovel]

“One swallow does not make a summer.”

[Contemptuous of his home beyond]

A Word for the Dumb.

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

An Echo from Willowwood.

“YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE.”

A Death of a First-born.

“FAINT, YET PURSUING.”

[What will it be, O my soul, what will it be]

[Lord, Thou art fulness, I am emptiness]

[O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee]

[Faith and Hope are wings to Love]

A SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER.

[“I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow”—]

[Passing away the bliss]

[Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest]

[Jesus alone:—if thus it were to me]

The Way of the World.

BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS.

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A SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER.

Lord, comest Thou to me?
My heart is cold and dead:
Alas that such a heart should be
The place to lay Thy head!