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Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti

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by Christina Rossetti


  I FANCY THE GOOD FAIRIES DRESSED IN WHITE

  I FOLLOWED THEE, MY GOD, I FOLLOWED THEE

  I GAVE A SWEET SMELL

  I HAVE A LITTLE HUSBAND

  I HAVE A MESSAGE UNTO THEE

  I HAVE A POLL PARROT

  I HAVE BUT ONE ROSE IN THE WORLD

  I HAVE DONE WITH HOPE

  I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT

  I KNOW A BABY, SUCH A BABY

  I KNOW YOU NOT

  I LIFT MINE EYES TO SEE: EARTH VANISHETH

  I LOOK FOR THE LORD

  I LOVE YOU AND YOU KNOW IT — THIS AT LEAST

  I PLANTED A HAND

  I SAID “ALL’S OVER” — & I MADE MY

  I SAID GOOD BYE IN HOPE

  I SAID WITHIN MYSELF: I AM A FOOL

  I SEE THAT ALL THINGS COME TO AN END

  I SEEK AMONG THE LIVING & I SEEK

  I SIT A QUEEN, AND AM NO WIDOW, AND SHALL SEE NO SORROW

  I SIT AMONG GREEN SHADY VALLEYS OFT

  I WILL ARISE

  I WILL COME AND HEAL HIM

  I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS

  I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS

  I WISH I WERE A LITTLE BIRD

  I, LORD, THY FOOLISH SINNER LOW AND SMALL

  IDDIO C’ILLUMINI!

  IF

  IF A MOUSE COULD FLY

  IF A PIG WORE A WIG

  IF ALL WERE RAIN AND NEVER SUN

  IF HOPE GREW ON A BUSH

  IF I HAD WORDS

  IF I SHOULD SAY “MY HEART IS IN MY HOME

  IF I WERE A QUEEN

  IF LOVE IS NOT WORTH LOVING, THEN LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING

  IF ONLY

  IF STARS DROPPED OUT OF HEAVEN

  IF THE MOON CAME FROM HEAVEN

  IF THE SUN COULD TELL US HALF

  IF THOU BE DEAD, FORGIVE AND THOU SHALT LIVE

  IF THOU SAYEST, BEHOLD, WE KNEW IT NOT

  IMITATED FROM THE ARPA EVANGELICA: PAGE 121

  IMMALEE

  IN A CERTAIN PLACE

  IN AN ARTIST’S STUDIO

  IN JULY

  IN PATIENCE

  IN PROGRESS

  IN RESURRECTION IS IT AWFULLER

  IN TEMA E IN PENA ADDIO

  IN THE DAY OF HIS ESPOUSALS

  IN THE LANE

  IN THE MEADOW — WHAT IN THE MEADOW?

  IN THE ROUND TOWER AT JHANSI, JUNE 8, 1857

  IN THE WILLOW SHADE

  IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS ST. PAUL

  INTROSPECTIVE

  IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD?

  IS THE MOON TIRED? SHE LOOKS SO PALE

  ISIDORA

  IT IS FINISHED

  IT IS NOT DEATH, O CHRIST, TO DIE FOR THEE

  ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!

  JANUARY COLD DESOLATE

  JERUSALEM OF FIRE

  JESSIE CAMERON

  JESUS ALONE: — IF THUS IT WERE TO ME

  JOHNNY

  JOY IS BUT SORROW

  JUDGE NOT ACCORDING TO THE APPEARANCE

  JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME

  KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS

  KOOKOOROOKOO! KOOKOOROOKOO!

  L. E. L

  L’INCOGNITA

  LA ROSA CHINA IL VOLTO ROSSEGGIATO

  LADY ISABELLA

  LADY ISABELLA

  LADY MONTREVOR

  LASSÙ FIA CARO IL RIVEDERCI

  LASSUSO IL CARO FIORE

  LAST NIGHT

  LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS

  LAUGHING LIFE CRIES AT THE FEAST

  LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN

  LEAF FROM LEAF CHRIST KNOWS

  LENT

  LET EVERYTHING THAT HATH BREATH PRAISE THE LORD

  LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK

  LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK

  LET THEM REJOICE IN THEIR BEDS

  LET THEM REJOICE IN THEIR BEDS

  LIE A-BED

  LIFE AND DEATH

  LIFE HIDDEN

  LIFE OUT OF DEATH

  LIFE THAT WAS BORN TODAY

  LIFT UP THINE EYES TO SEEK THE INVISIBLE

  LIGHT LOVE

  LIGHT OF LIGHT

  LIKE AS THE HART DESIRETH THE WATER BROOKS

  LINES TO MY GRANDFATHER

  LINES: GIVEN WITH A PENWIPER

  LISETTA ALL’ AMANTE

  LISTEN, AND I WILL TELL YOU OF A FACE

  LISTENING

  LO! NEWBORN JESUS

  LONG BARREN

  LONG LOOKED FOR

  LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THIS

  LOOKING BACK ALONG LIFE’S TRODDEN WAY

  LOOKING FORWARD

  LORD GOD OF HOSTS, MOST HOLY AND MOST HIGH

  LORD JESU, THOU ART SWEETNESS TO MY SOUL

  LORD JESUS, WHO WOULD THINK THAT I AM THINE?

  LORD THOMAS AND FAIR MARGARET

  LORD, BY WHAT INCONCEIVABLE DIM ROAD

  LORD, CARRY ME. — NAY, BUT I GRANT THEE STRENGTH

  LORD, DOST THOU LOOK ON ME, AND WILL NOT I

  LORD, GIVE ME LOVE THAT I MAY LOVE THEE MUCH

  LORD, GRANT ME GRACE TO LOVE THEE IN MY PAIN

  LORD, GRANT US CALM, IF CALM CAN SET FORTH THEE

  LORD, GRANT US EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR

  LORD, GRANT US GRACE TO REST UPON THY WORD

  LORD, HAST THOU SO LOVED US, AND WILL NOT WE

  LORD, I AM FEEBLE AND OF MEAN ACCOUNT

  LORD, I AM HERE. — BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE

  LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE

  LORD, MAKE ME PURE

  LORD, MAKE US ALL LOVE ALL: THAT WHEN WE MEET

  LORD, SAVE US, WE PERISH

  LORD, THOU ART FULNESS, I AM EMPTINESS

  LORD, WE ARE RIVERS RUNNING TO THY SEA

  LORD, WHAT HAVE I THAT I MAY OFFER THEE?

  LORD, WHAT HAVE I TO OFFER? SICKENING FEAR

  LOVE AND DEATH

  LOVE AND HOPE

  LOVE ATTACKED

  LOVE BUILDS A NEST ON EARTH AND WAITS FOR REST

  LOVE DEFENDED

  LOVE EPHEMERAL

  LOVE FROM THE NORTH

  LOVE HATH A NAME OF DEATH

  LOVE IS ALL HAPPINESS, LOVE IS ALL BEAUTY

  LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH

  LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH

  LOVE LIES BLEEDING

  LOVE LOVETH THEE, AND WISDOM LOVETH THEE

  LOVE ME, — I LOVE YOU

  LOVE, TO BE LOVE, MUST WALK THY WAY

  LUGUBRE E VAGABONDO IN TERRA E IN MARE

  LULLABY, OH, LULLABY!

  LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL

  LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL

  MAGGIE A LADY

  MAIDEN MAY

  MAIDEN-SONG

  MAN’S LIFE IS BUT A WORKING DAY

  MARGARET HAS A MILKING-PAIL

  MARGERY

  MARIANA

  MARTYRS’ SONG

  MARVEL OF MARVELS, IF I MYSELF SHALL BEHOLD

  MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY

  MAUDE CLARE

  MAUNDY THURSDAY

  MAY

  MAY: I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW IT WAS

  ME AND MY GIFT: KIND LORD, BEHOLD

  ME YOU OFTEN MEET

  MEETING

  MEMENTO MORI

  MEMORY

  METHINKS THE ILLS OF LIFE I FAIN WOULD SHUN

  MICHAEL F. M. ROSSETTI

  MID-LENT

  MINNIE AND MATTIE

  MINNIE BAKES OATEN CAKES

  MIRAGE

  MIRRORS OF LIFE AND DEATH

  MIX A PANCAKE

  MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK

  MONNA INNOMINATA

  MOONSHINE

  MOTHER AND CHILD

  MOTHER COUNTRY

  MOTHER SHAKE THE CHERRY-TREE

  MOTHERLESS BABY AND BABYLESS MOTHER

  MR. AND MRS. SCOTT, AND I

  MY BABY HAS A FATHER AND A MOTHER

  MY BABY HAS A MOTTLED FIST

  MY DREAM

  MY FRIEND

  MY GOD, WILT THOU ACCEPT, AND WILL NOT WE

/>   MY MOUSE

  MY OLD ADMIRATION BEFORE I WAS TWENTY

  MY OLD FRIENDS

  NE’ SOGNI TI VEGGO

  NEL VERNO ACCANTO AL FUOCO

  NEW CREATURES; THE CREATOR STILL THE SAME

  NEW ENIGMAS

  NEXT OF KIN

  NIGHT AND DEATH

  NINNA NANNA, NINNA NANNA!

  NO, THANK YOU, JOHN

  NOBLE SISTERS

  NON SON IO LA ROSA MA VI STETTI APPRESSO

  NONE OTHER LAMB, NONE OTHER NAME

  NONE WITH HIM

  NOSTRE VOLUNTÀ QUIETI VIRTÙ DI CARITI

  NOT YOURS BUT YOU

  NOW THEY DESIRE

  NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY

  O CHRIST MY GOD WHO SEEST THE UNSEEN

  O CHRIST OUR ALL IN EACH, OUR ALL IN ALL!

  O CILIEGIA INFIORITA

  O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING?

  O FOOLISH SOUL! TO MAKE THY COUNT

  O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE

  O LADY MOON, YOUR HORNS POINT TOWARD THE EAST

  O LORD, I AM ASHAMED TO SEEK THY FACE

  O LORD, I CANNOT PLEAD MY LOVE OF THEE

  O LORD, ON WHOM WE GAZE AND DARE NOT GAZE

  O LORD, WHEN THOU DIDST CALL ME, DIDST THOU KNOW

  O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!

  O MARINARO, CHE MI APPORTI TU?

  O MINE ENEMY

  O SAILOR, COME ASHORE

  O UOMMIBATTO

  O WIND, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN

  O WIND, WHY DO YOU NEVER REST

  O YE WHO LOVE TODAY

  O YE, WHO ARE NOT DEAD AND FIT

  OF EACH SAD WORD WHICH IS MORE SORROWFUL

  OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH

  OF MY LIFE

  OGGI

  OH FORZA IRRESISTIBILE

  OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME

  OH THOU WHO TELL’ST ME THAT ALL HOPE IS OVER

  OH, FAIR TO SEE

  OIBÒ, PICCINA

  OLD AND NEW YEAR DITTIES

  ON ALBINA

  ON KEATS

  ON THE DEATH OF A CAT

  ON THE GRASSY BANKS

  ON THE NOTE YOU DO NOT SEND ME

  ON THE WING

  ONCE

  ONCE FOR ALL

  ONE CERTAINTY

  ONE DAY

  ONE FOOT ON SEA, AND ONE ON SHORE

  ONE OF THE DEAD

  ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WITH A SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE

  ONE SEA-SIDE GRAVE

  ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER

  ONE WOE IS PAST. COME WHAT COME WILL

  ONLY BELIEVE

  OTTO ORE SUONANO

  OUR CHURCH PALMS ARE BUDDING WILLOW TWIGS

  OUR HEAVEN MUST BE WITHIN OURSELVES

  OUR LIFE IS LONG. NOT SO, WISE ANGELS SAY

  OUR LITTLE BABY FELL ASLEEP

  OUR MOTHERS, LOVELY WOMEN PITIFUL

  OUR WIDOWED QUEEN

  OUT OF THE DEEP

  PALM SUNDAY

  PARADISE

  PARADISE: IN A SYMBOL

  PARTING AFTER PARTING

  PASSING AND GLASSING

  PASSING AWAY THE BLISS

  PASSIONTIDE

  PASTIME

  PATIENCE MUST DWELL WITH LOVE, FOR LOVE AND SORROW

  PATIENCE OF HOPE

  PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU

  PER PREFERENZA

  PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR

  PESANO RENA E PENA

  PETER GRUMP / FORSS

  PITEOUS MY RHYME IS

  PITIA A DAMONE

  PLAYING AT BOB CHERRY

  PORCO LA ZUCCA

  PORTRAITS

  PRAISE OF LOVE

  PRAYING ALWAYS

  PRESENT AND FUTURE

  PROMISES LIKE PIECRUST

  PURPUREA ROSA

  PUSSY HAS A WHISKERED FACE

  QUANTO A LEI GRATA IO SONO

  QUEEN ROSE

  QUINQUAGESIMA

  REDEEMING THE TIME

  REFLECTION

  REJOICE WITH ME

  REMEMBER

  REMEMBER, IF I CLAIM TOO MUCH OF YOU

  REPINING

  REST

  RESURGAM

  RESURRECTION EVE

  RIPETIZIONE

  RIVALS

  RIVER THAMES (?)

  ROGATIONTIDE

  ROSALIND

  ROSES BLUSHING RED AND WHITE

  ROSES ON A BRIER

  ROSY MAIDEN WINIFRED

  RUIN

  RUSHES IN A WATERY PLACE

  S’ADDORMENTÒ LA NOSTRA FIGLIOLINA

  SAFE WHERE I CANNOT LIE YET

  SAINTS AND ANGELS

  SALTA, RANOCCHIO, E MOSTRATI

  SAPESSI PURE!

  SAPPHO

  SCARCE TOLERABLE LIFE, WHICH ALL LIFE LONG

  SCAVAI LA NEVE, — SÌ CHE SCAVAI!

  SE COSÌ FOSSE

  SE FOSSI ANDATA A HASTINGS

  SEASONS

  SEASONS

  SEASONS: CROCUSES AND SNOWDROPS WITHER

  SEEKING REST

  SELDOM “CAN’T,”

  SEPTUAGESIMA

  SERENADE

  SEVEN VIALS HOLD THY WRATH: BUT WHAT CAN HOLD

  SEXAGESIMA

  SHADOWS TODAY, WHILE SHADOWS SHOW GOD’S WILL

  SHALL I FORGET?

  SHALL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT?

  SHE CAME FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH

  SHE SHALL BE BROUGHT UNTO THE KING

  SHORT IS TIME, AND ONLY TIME IS BLEAK

  SHUT OUT

  SÌ CHE IL FRATELLO S’HA UN FALCONCELLO

  SI RIMANDA LA TOCCA-CALDAJA

  SING ME A SONG

  SIR EUSTACE GREY

  SIR WINTER

  SISTER MAUDE

  SIT DOWN IN THE LOWEST ROOM

  SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD

  SLAIN IN THEIR HIGH PLACES: FALLEN ON REST

  SLEEP AT SEA

  SLEEP, SLEEP, HAPPY CHILD

  SLEEPING AT LAST, THE TROUBLE & TUMULT OVER

  SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES

  SO I BEGAN MY WALK OF LIFE; NO STOP

  SO I GREW HALF DELIRIOUS AND QUITE SICK

  SOEUR LOUISE DE LA MISÉRICORDE

  SOME LADIES DRESS IN MUSLIN FULL AND WHITE

  SOMEWHERE OR OTHER

  SON, REMEMBER

  SONG

  SONG: I HAVE LOVED YOU FOR LONG LONG YEARS ELLEN

  SONG: IT IS NOT FOR HER EVEN BROW

  SONG: OH ROSES FOR THE FLUSH OF YOUTH

  SONG: OH WHAT COMES OVER THE SEA

  SONG: SHE SAT AND SANG ALWAY

  SONG: THE STREAM MOANETH AS IT FLOWETH

  SONG: TWO DOVES UPON THE SELFSAME BRANCH

  SONG: WE BURIED HER AMONG THE FLOWERS

  SONG: WHEN I AM DEAD, MY DEAREST

  SONGS IN A CORNFIELD

  SONNET: FROM THE PSALMS

  SONNET: SOME SAY THAT LOVE AND JOY ARE ONE: AND SO

  SONNETS ARE FULL OF LOVE, AND THIS MY TOME

  SOONER OR LATER: YET AT LAST

  SORROW HATH A DOUBLE VOICE

  SOUL RUDDERLESS, UNBRACED

  SOUND SLEEP

  SPOSA VELATA

  SPRING

  SPRING FANCIES

  SPRING QUIET

  SPUNTA LA MARGHERITA

  ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH

  ST. BARNABAS

  ST. BARTHOLOMEW

  ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY

  ST. JOHN, APOSTLE

  ST. MARK

  ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

  ST. PETER

  ST. PETER ONCE: “LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET?”

  ST. VALENTINE’S DAY, 1881

  ST. VALENTINE’S DAY, 1885

  ST. VALENTINE’S DAY, 1886

  STANDING AFAR OFF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT

  STRANGE VOICES SING AMONG THE PLANETS WHICH

  STROKE A FLINT, AND THERE IS NOTHING TO ADMIRE

  SUBJECT TO LIKE PASSIONS AS WE ARE

  SUMMER

  SUMMER

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sp; SUMMER

  SUMMER IS ENDED

  SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT

  SUNSHINE

  SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS

  SURELY THERE IS AN ACHING VOID WITHIN

  SURSAM CORDA

  SWEET DEATH

  SWEETNESS OF REST WHEN THOU SHEDDEST REST

  SWIFT AND SURE THE SWALLOW

  SYMBOLS

  TAKE CARE OF HIM

  TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW

  TASSO AND LEONORA

  TEMPUS FUGIT

  THAT EDEN OF EARTH’S SUNRISE CANNOT VIE

  THAT NO MAN TAKE THY CROWN

  THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO

  THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NAMED ALREADY, AND IT IS KNOWN THAT IT IS MAN

  THE BOURNE

  THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND

  THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND

  THE CHINAMAN

  THE CITY MOUSE LIVES IN A HOUSE

  THE CONVENT THRESHOLD

  THE DAY IS AT HAND

  THE DAYS ARE CLEAR

  THE DEAD BRIDE

  THE DEAD CITY

  THE DEAR OLD WOMAN IN THE LANE

  THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS

  THE DOG LIES IN HIS KENNEL

  THE DREAM

  THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED

  THE EARTH SHALL TREMBLE AT THE LOOK OF HIM

  THE ELEVENTH HOUR

  THE END IS NOT YET

  THE END OF TIME

  THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS

  THE FIRST SPRING DAY

  THE FLOWERS APPEAR ON THE EARTH

  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN

  THE GERMAN-FRENCH CAMPAIGN 1870-1871

  THE GHOST’S PETITION

  THE GOAL IN SIGHT! LOOK UP AND SING

  THE GOLD OF THAT LAND IS GOOD

  THE GOOD SHEPHERD

  THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY

  THE HALF MOON SHOWS A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS

  THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS

  THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS

  THE HILLS ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, WHILE I WALK

  THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM

  THE HORSES OF THE SEA

  THE HOUR AND THE GHOST

  THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN

  THE JOY OF SAINTS, LIKE INCENSE TURNED TO FIRE

  THE KEY-NOTE

  THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860

  THE LAST ANSWER

  THE LAST COMPLAINT

  THE LAST LOOK

  THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS

  THE LILY HAS A SMOOTH STALK

  THE LILY HAS AN AIR

  THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE

  THE LOTUS-EATERS

  THE LOWEST PLACE

  THE LOWEST ROOM

  THE MARTYR

  THE MASSACRE OF PERUGIA

  THE MASTER IS COME, AND CALLETH FOR THEE

  THE NAME OF JESUS

  THE NOVICE

  THE OFFERING OF THE NEW LAW, THE ONE OBLATION ONCE OFFERED

  THE P. R. B

  THE PASSION FLOWER HATH SPRUNG UP TALL

  THE PEACH TREE ON THE SOUTHERN WALL

  THE PEACOCK HAS A SCORE OF EYES

  THE PLAGUE

  THE POOR GHOST

  THE PRINCE’S PROGRESS

  THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN

  THE QUEEN OF HEARTS

  THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD

  THE ROSE

  THE ROSE

  THE ROSE THAT BLUSHES ROSY RED

 

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