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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.
  
ADVENT SUNDAY.
  
ADVENT
  
[Sooner or later: yet at last]
  
CHRISTMAS EVE.
  
CHRISTMAS DAY.
  
CHRISTMASTIDE.
  
ST. JOHN, APOSTLE.
  
[“Beloved, let us love one another,” says St. John]
  
HOLY INNOCENTS.
  
[Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb]
  
EPIPHANY.
  
EPIPHANYTIDE.
  
SEPTUAGESIMA.
  
SEXAGESIMA.
  
[That Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vie]
  
QUINQUAGESIMA.
  
[Piteous my rhyme is]
  
ASH WEDNESDAY.
  
[Good Lord, today]
  
LENT.
  
EMBERTIDE.
  
MID-LENT.
  
PASSIONTIDE.
  
PALM SUNDAY.
  
MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK.
  
TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK.
  
WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK.
  
MAUNDY THURSDAY.
  
GOOD FRIDAY MORNING.
  
GOOD FRIDAY.
  
GOOD FRIDAY EVENING.
  
“A bundle of myrrh is my Well-beloved unto me.”
  
EASTER EVEN.
  
Our Church Palms are budding willow twigs.
  
EASTER DAY.
  
EASTER MONDAY.
  
EASTER TUESDAY.
  
ROGATIONTIDE.
  
ASCENSION EVE.
  
ASCENSION DAY.
  
WHITSUN EVE.
  
WHITSUN DAY.
  
WHITSUN MONDAY.
  
WHITSUN TUESDAY.
  
TRINITY SUNDAY.
  
CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL.
  
[In weariness and painfulness St. Paul]
  
VIGIL OF THE PRESENTATION.
  
FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION.
  
THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN.
  
VIGIL OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
  
FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION.
  
[Herself a rose, who bore the Rose]
  
ST. MARK.
  
ST. BARNABAS.
  
VIGIL OF ST. PETER.
  
ST. PETER.
  
[St. Peter once: “Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?”—]
  
[I followed Thee, my God, I followed Thee]
  
VIGIL OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW.
  
ST. BARTHOLOMEW.
  
ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS.
  
VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS.
  
ALL SAINTS.
  
ALL SAINTS: MARTYRS.
  
“I gave a sweet smell.”
  
[Hark! the Alleluias of the great salvation]
  
A SONG FOR THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS.
  
SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT.
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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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Lady Isabella.

Heart warm as Summer, fresh as Spring,
Gracious as Autumn's harvesting,
Pure as the Winter snows; as white
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A hand as lilies in sun-light;
Eyes glorious as a midnight star;
Hair shining as the chestnuts are;
A step firm and majestical;
A voice singing and musical;
A soft expression, kind address;
Tears for another's heaviness;
Bright looks; an action full of grace;
A perfect form, a perfect face;
All these become a woman well,
And these had Lady Isabelle.
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