Poems

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Poems This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org . If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title : Poems Author : Christina Georgina Rossetti Release date : September 5, 2006 [eBook #19188] Language : English Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19188 Credits : Produced by Steven desJardins, Jeffrey Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS *** POEMS. BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1906. AUTHOR'S EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED 1876. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. TO MY MOTHER, IN ALL REVERENCE AND LOVE, I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK . THE AUTHOR TO HER AMERICAN READERS. My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatory words: either it will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it. Its reappearance, however, in an American edition, gives me a welcome opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy and liberality of Messrs. Roberts Brothers, who have arranged with me and with my kind friend and publisher, Mr. Macmillan, to bring it before the American public. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. London CONTENTS. GOBLIN MARKET, ETC. Page Goblin Market 3 In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 23 Dream-land 24 At Home 25 From Sunset to Star Rise 26 Love from the North 27 Winter Rain 29 A Dirge 30 Confluents 31 Noble Sisters 32 Spring 34 The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860 36 A Birthday 37 Remember 38 After Death 39 An End 40 My Dream 41 Song 43 The Hour and the Ghost 43 A Summer Wish 46 An Apple Gathering 47 Song 48 Maude Clare 49 Echo 51 Winter: My Secret 52 Another Spring 53 A Peal of Bells 54 Fata Morgana 55 "No, thank you, John" 56 May 57 A Pause of Thought 58 Twilight Calm 59 Wife to Husband 61 Three Seasons 63 Mirage 63 Shut out 64 Sound Sleep 65 Song 66 Song 67 Dead before Death 68 Bitter for Sweet 68 "The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee" 69 Rest 70 The First Spring Day 70 The Convent Threshold 71 Uphill 77 DEVOTIONAL PIECES. "The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge" 81 "A Bruised Reed shall he not Break" 82 A Better Resurrection 83 Advent 84 The Three Enemies 87 One Certainty 89 Christian and Jew 90 Sweet Death 93 Symbols 94 "Consider the Lilies of the Field" 95 The World 96 A Testimony 97 Sleep at Sea 100 From House to Home 103 Old and New Year Ditties 113 Amen 115 Mother Country 116 THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC. The Prince's Progress 119 Maiden-Song 140 Jessie Cameron 148 Spring Quiet 153 The Poor Ghost 154 A Portrait 156 Dream-Love 157 Twice 160 Songs in a Cornfield 162 A Year's Windfalls 166 The Queen of Hearts 170 One Day 171 A Bird's-Eye View 172 "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth" 176 "To-day for Me" 177 On the Wing 179 Consider 180 Beauty is Vain 181 Maggie a Lady 182 What would I give 184 The Bourne 185 Summer 185 Autumn 187 The Ghost's Petition 189 Memory 193 A Royal Princess 195 Shall I Forget? 202 Vanity of Vanities 203 L. E. L. 204 Life and Death 206 Bird or Beast? 207 Eve 208 Grown and Flown 211 A Farm Walk 212 Somewhere or Other 215 A Chill 216 Child's Talk in April 217 Gone for Ever 219 Under the Rose 220 Song 239 By the Sea 240 Days of Vanity 240 Enrica, 1865 242 Once for All 243 Autumn Violets 243 "They Desire a Better Country" 244 A Green Cornfield 246 A Bride Song 247 The Lowest Room 249 Dead Hope 261 A Daughter of Eve 261 Venus' Looking-Glass 262 Love lies Bleeding 263 Bird Raptures 263 My Friend 264 Twilight Night 265 A Bird Song 266 A Smile and a Sigh 267 DEVOTIONAL PIECES. Amor Mundi 267 A Christmas Carol 269 By the Waters of Babylon 271 Paradise 274 "I will lift up mine Eyes unto the Hills" 276 Saints and Angels 278 "When my Heart is Vexed, I will Complain" 280 After Communion 281 A Rose Plant in Jericho 282 Who shall Deliver Me? 283 Despised and Rejected 287 Long Barren 289 If Only 290 Dost thou not Care? 291 Weary in Well-Doing 292 Martyrs' Song 293 After this the Judgment 296 Good Friday 299 The Lowest Place 300 A PAGEANT AND OTHER POEMS. The Key-Note 11 The Months: A Pageant 13 Pastime 33 "Italia, io ti saluto!" 34 Mirrors of Life and Death 35 A Ballad of Boding 42 Yet a little while 52 He and She 53 Monna Innominata 54 "Luscious and Sorrowful" 69 De Profundis 70 Tempus fugit 71 Golden Glories 72 Johnny 73 "Hollow-sounding and Mysterious" 77 Maiden May 79 Till To-morrow 84 Death-Watches 85 Touching "Never" 86 Brandons both 87 A Life's Parallels 92 At Last 93 Golden Silences 94 In the Willow Shade 95 Fluttered Wings 99 A Fisher-Wife 100 What's in a Name? 101 Mariana 103 Memento Mori 104 "One Foot on Sea, and one on Shore" 105 Buds and Babies 107 Boy Johnny 108 Freaks of Fashion 109 An October Garden 113 Summer is ended 114 Passing and Glassing 11 5 "I will arise" 117 A Prodigal Son 119 Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde 120 An "immurata" Sister 122 "If Thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not" 124 The Thread of Life 127 An Old-World Thicket 130 "All Thy Works praise Thee, O Lord" 140 Later Life 154 "For Thine own Sake, O my God" 182 Until the Day break 183 "Of Him that was ready to perish" 185 "Behold the Man!" 187 The Descent from the Cross 188 "It is finished" 189 An Easter Carol 192 "Behold a shaking" 194 All Saints 196 "Take care of him" 199 A Martyr 201 Why? 207 "Love is strong as Death" 208 Birchington Churchyard 209 One Sea-side Grave 210 Brother Bruin 211 "A Helpmeet for him" 214 A Song of Flight 215 A Wintry Sonnet 216 Resurgam 217 To-day's Burden 218 "There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight" 219 Exultate Deo 220 A Hope Carol 221 Christmas Carols 223 A Candlemas Dialogue 228 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary 230 Patience of Hope 231

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