Poems and Prose by Rossetti, Christina Georgina -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Contents Introduction Chronology Note on the Text POEMS AND PROSE

Sappho The Dead City Spring Quiet Repining A Pause of Thought What Sappho Would Have Said Had Her Leap Cured Instead of Killing Her Song (‘When I am dead, my dearest’) To Lalla, Reading My Verses Topsy–Turvy Song (‘Oh roses for the flush of youth’) Have You Forgotten? An End Two Pursuits Dream Land After Death Rest Life Hidden Remember (‘So I grew half delirious and quite sick’) A Dirge (‘She was as sweet as violets in the Spring’) ‘A Fair World Tho’ a Fallen’ —— ‘A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break’ Moonshine ‘To What Purpose is This Waste?’ From the Antique (‘I wish that I were dying’)/ One Sea-Side Grave Whitsun Eve What? A Pause Song (‘Two doves upon the selfsame branch’) Sleep at Sea ‘Consider the Lilies of the Field’ A Study (A Soul) The Bourne Paradise The World Guesses From the Antique (‘It’s a weary life, it is’) Two Choices Echo The First Spring Day My Dream Cobwebs May (‘I cannot tell you how it was’) An Afterthought May — (‘Sweet Life is dead’) Shut Out By the Water A Chilly Night Amen A Bed of Forget-Me-Nots ‘Look on This Picture and on This’ The Lowest Room A Triad Love from the North In an Artist’s Studio A Better Resurrection ‘The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness’ In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857 ‘Reflection’ A Coast-Nightmare Another Spring ‘For One Sake’ A Birthday An Apple Gathering My Secret Autumn Advent At Home Up-Hill The Convent Threshold Christian and Jew A Yawn/By the Sea From House to Home Winter Rain L.E.L. Goblin Market Spring Sister Maude Noble Sisters ‘No Thank You, John’ Mirage Old and New Year Ditties, 3 (‘Passing away, saith the World, passing away’) Promises like Piecrust A Royal Princess In Progress Good Friday A Dream The Queen of Hearts A Bird’s-Eye View A Dumb Friend Maiden-Song The Lowest Place Somewhere or Other What Would I Give? Who Shall Deliver Me? The Ghost’s Petition Twice Under Willows Bird or Beast? A Sketch Songs in a Cornfield Despised and Rejected Jessie Cameron Weary in Well-Doing Paradise: in a Symbol Grown and Flown Eve The Prince’s Progress Memory Amor Mundi From Sunset to Star Rise Under the Rose En Route/An ‘Immurata’ Sister Enrica, 1865 A Daughter of Eve A Dirge (‘Why were you born when the snow was falling?’) In a Certain Place ‘Cannot Sweeten’ Autumn Violets ‘They Desire a Better Country’ From: SING-SONG: A NURSERY RHYME BOOK:

Love me, — I love you My baby has a father and a mother ‘Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!’ Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? Heartsease in my garden bed If I were a Queen The days are clear Twist me a crown of wind-flowers How many seconds in a minute? What is pink? a rose is pink I planted a hand Under the ivy bush Margaret has a milking-pail In the meadow—what in the meadow? A frisky lamb The wind has such a rainy sound Minnie bakes oaten cakes ‘Ferry me across the water’ Who has seen the wind? An emerald is as green as grass I caught a little ladybird Wee wee husband ‘I dreamt I caught a little owl’ Is the moon tired? she looks so pale Crimson curtains round my mother’s bed

By Way of Remembrance The German-French Campaign 1870–1871 A Christmas Carol Venus’s Looking-Glass Love Lies Bleeding A Bride Song A Rose Plant in Jericho [Dedicatory Sonnet of A Pageant and Other Poems (1881)] The Key-Note Pastime ‘Italia, Io Ti Saluto!’ Mirrors of Life and Death A Ballad of Boding Yet a Little While He and She Monna Innominata ‘Luscious and Sorrowful’ ‘Hollow-Sounding and Mysterious’ Touching ‘Never’ A Life’s Parallels Golden Silences In the Willow Shade ‘One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore’ An October Garden ‘Summer is Ended’ Passing and Glassing The Thread of Life An Old-World Thicket Later Life: a Double Sonnet of Sonnets ‘Behold the Man!’ Resurgam A Valentine Birchington Churchyard ‘A Helpmeet for Him’ An Echo from Willowwood (‘Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse’) ‘Son, Remember’ (‘Sleeping at last, the trouble & tumult over’) STORIES

Maude Nick The Lost Titian A Safe Investment

DEVOTIONAL PROSE

From SEEK AND FIND: A DOUBLE SERIES OF SHORT STUDIES OF THE BENEDICITE

Waters Above the Firmament Sun and Moon Seas and Floods Whales and All That Move in the Waters Spirits and Souls of the Righteous Powers

From LETTER AND SPIRIT: NOTES ON THE COMMANDMENTS From TIME FLIES: A READING DIARY

January 2 January 3 January 15 January 16 (‘Love understands the mystery’) February 8 February 9 February 10 February 11 (‘No more! while sun and planets fly’) February 12 (‘Once again to wake, nor wish to sleep’) February 14 February 15 (‘My love whose heart is tender said to me’) February 20 February 27 (‘A handy Mole who plied no shovel’) February 28 March 4 March 5 (‘Where shall I find a white rose blowing?’) March 18 April 1 (A Castle-Builder's World) April 2 April 13 (‘A cold wind stirs the blackthorn’) April 20 (‘Piteous my rhyme is’) April 28 April 29 May 16 (‘If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living’) May 20 (‘That Song of Songs which is Solomon’s’) May 21 (‘“The half was not told me,” said Sheba’s Queen’) May 28 (‘They lie at rest, our blessed dead’) June 3 June 4 June 6 (‘Heartsease I found, where Love-lies-bleeding’) June 7 June 8 June 9 (‘Roses on a brier’) June 26 July 4 July 6 July 7 (‘Contemptuous of his home beyond’) July 13 July 14 July 17 July 18 August 4 August 5 (‘Of each sad word, which is more sorrowful’) October 14 December 17 (‘Earth grown old yet still so green’) December 29 (‘Love came down at Christmas’) Thursday in Holy Week (‘The great Vine left its glory to reign as Forest King’) Rogation Tuesday

From: THE FACE OF THE DEEP: A DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE

Prefatory Note Ch. V.6 Ch. VIII.1 Ch. XII.1 Ch. XIII.2 Ch. XVII.3 Ch. XVII.4–5 Ch. XVII.9 Ch. XVII.10–13 Ch. XVII.14–17 Ch. XVII.18 Ch. XVIII.11–13 Ch. XVIII.14 Ch. XVIII.15–17 Ch. XX.10 Ch. XX.12

LETTERS

To William Michael Rossetti, 19 September 1853 To Amelia Barnard Heimann, 3 April 1862 To Adolph Heimann, [?April] 1862 To Alexander Macmillan, [1 December 1863] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 7 May 1864 To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 23 December 1864 To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 30 [January 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 10 [February 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 3 [March 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 6 [March 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [11 March 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 13 [March 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 31 March [1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [?April 1865] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, [?spring 1870] To Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 14 [December 1875] To Augusta Webster [?later 1878] To Augusta Webster [?later 1878] To an Unnamed Correspondent, 23 [?] 1888

Notes Further Reading Index of Titles

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

Index of First Lines of Poems

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y

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