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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

115

"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

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"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