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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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“O Death where is thy Sting?”

She sleepeth: would ye wake her if ye could?
Is her face sad that ye should pity her?
Did Death come to her like a messenger
From a far land where is not any good?
I tell ye nay: but, having understood
That God is Love, Death was her harbinger
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[The rest of the manuscript is missing from the notebook.]


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