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.
will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it.
Christina Rossetti
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Title: Poems
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Release Date: September 5, 2006 [EBook #19188]
[Date last updated: September 11, 2006]
Language: English
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[Illustration]
POEMS.
BY
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.
[Illustration: "Golden head by golden head"]
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.
Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-land
At Home
From Sunset to Starrise
Love from the North
Winter Rain
A Dirge
Confluents
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
"No, thank you, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song
Song
Dead before Death
Bitter for Sweet
"The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee"
Rest
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Up-Hill
DEVOTIONAL PIECES.
"The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge"
"A Bruised Reed shall he not Break"
A Better Resurrection
Advent
The Three Enemies
One Certainty
Christian and Jew
Sweet Death
Symbols
"Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The World
A Testimony
Sleep at Sea
From House to Home
Old and New Year Ditties
Amen
Mother Country
THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC.
The Prince's Progress
Maiden-Song
Jessie Cameron
Spring Quiet
The Poor Ghost
A Portrait
Dream-Love
Twice
Songs in a Cornfield
A Year's Windfalls
The Queen of Hearts
One Day
A Bird's-Eye View
"Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"
"To-day for Me"
On the Wing
Consider
Beauty is Vain
Maggie a Lady
What would I give
The Bourne
Summer
Autumn
The Ghost's Petition
Memory
A Royal Princess
Shall I Forget?
Vanity of Vanities
L. E. L.
Life and Death
Bird or Beast?
Title: Poems
Author: Christina G. Rossetti
Release Date: September 5, 2006 [EBook #19188]
[Date last updated: September 11, 2006]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***
Produced by Steven desJardins, Jeffrey Johnson and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www. pgdp. net
[Illustration]
POEMS.
BY
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.
[Illustration: "Golden head by golden head"]
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.
Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-land
At Home
From Sunset to Starrise
Love from the North
Winter Rain
A Dirge
Confluents
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
"No, thank you, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song
Song
Dead before Death
Bitter for Sweet
"The Master is Come, and Calleth for Thee"
Rest
The First Spring Day
The Convent Threshold
Up-Hill
DEVOTIONAL PIECES.
"The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge"
"A Bruised Reed shall he not Break"
A Better Resurrection
Advent
The Three Enemies
One Certainty
Christian and Jew
Sweet Death
Symbols
"Consider the Lilies of the Field"
The World
A Testimony
Sleep at Sea
From House to Home
Old and New Year Ditties
Amen
Mother Country
THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, ETC.
The Prince's Progress
Maiden-Song
Jessie Cameron
Spring Quiet
The Poor Ghost
A Portrait
Dream-Love
Twice
Songs in a Cornfield
A Year's Windfalls
The Queen of Hearts
One Day
A Bird's-Eye View
"Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"
"To-day for Me"
On the Wing
Consider
Beauty is Vain
Maggie a Lady
What would I give
The Bourne
Summer
Autumn
The Ghost's Petition
Memory
A Royal Princess
Shall I Forget?
Vanity of Vanities
L. E. L.
Life and Death
Bird or Beast?
