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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 III
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I Separately Published Poems
  
DEATH'S CHILL BETWEEN.
  
HEART'S CHILL BETWEEN.
  
Repining.
  
NEW ENIGMAS.
  
CHARADES.
  
THE ROSE.
  
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.
  
Easter Even.
  
Come unto Me.
  
Ash Wednesday.
  
SPRING FANCIES.
  
“LAST NIGHT.”
  
PETER GRUMP.
  
Helen Grey.
  
If.
  
Seasons.
  
HENRY HARDIMAN,
  
Within the Veil.
  
Paradise: in a Symbol.
  
[In July]
  
[Love hath a name of Death]
  
[Alas my Lord]
  
AN ALPHABET.
  
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.
  
GONE BEFORE
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II Privately Printed Poems
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III Unpublished Poems

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[Love is all happiness, love is all beauty]

Love is all happiness, love is all beauty,
Love is the crown of flaxen heads and hoary,
Love is the only everlasting duty,
And love is chronicled in endless story
And kindles endless glory.
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