 | The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art |  |
An End
Christina Rossetti composed "An End" on March 5, 1849. It was first printed in The Germ under the name "Ellen Alleyn," a pseudonym created by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. William Michael Rossetti wrote in his preface to the 1901 reprint of The Germ that his sister "did not care to figure under her own name." Editions in which the poem appears:
Nightingale Valley, A Collection of Choice Lyrics and Short Poems. William Allingham [Giraldis], Ed. London: Bell and Daldy, 1859.
Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862. Second edition, 1865.
Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866. Second edition 1876. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems.London: Macmillan, 1875.
The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, with Memoir and Notes by William Michael Rossetti. London: Macmillan, 1904.
Love, strong as death, is dead
Reference to the Song of Solomon, 8:6. "Set me a seal as
upon thine
heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as
death; jealousy is cruel
as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which
hath a most vehement
flame."
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