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Author Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894.

Title The complete poems of Christina Rossetti / edited, with textual notes and introductions, by R. W. Crump
Edition A variorum edition
Published Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1979-c1990

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Description 3 volumes : portrait ; 24 cm
Contents Pt.1. Sing- Song : A Nursery Rhyme Book (1972) -- Angels at the food -- Love me, -- I love you -- My baby has a father and a mother -- Our little baby fell asleep -- "Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo" -- Baby cry -- Eight o'clock -- Bread and milk for breakfast -- There's snow on the fields -- Dead in the cold, a sing-singing thrush -- I dug an dug amongst the snow -- A city plum is not a plum -- Your brother has a falcon -- Hear what the mournful linnets say -- A baby's cradle with no baby in it -- Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner -- Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth -- O win, why do you never rest -- Crying, my little one, footsore and weary -- Growing in the vale -- A linnet in a gilded cage -- Wren and robins in the hedge -- My baby has a mottled fist -- Why did baby die -- If all were rain and never sun 00 O wind, where have you been -- On the grassy banks -- Rushes in a watery place -- Minnie and Mattie -- Heartsease in my garden bed -- If I were a Queen -- What are heacy? sea-sand and sorrow -- There is but one May in the year -- The summer nights are short -- The days are clear -- Twist me a crown of wind-flowers -- Brown and furry -- A toadstool comes up in a night -- A pocket handkerchief to hem -- If a pig wore a wig -- Seldom "can't" -- 1 and 1 are 2 -- How many seconds in a minute -- What will you give me for my pound -- January c old desolate -- What is pink? a rose is pink -- Mother shake the cherry-tree -- A pin has a head, but has no hair -- Hopping frog, hop here and be seen -- Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are -- The City mouse lives in a house -- What does the donkey bray about -- Three plum buns -- A motherless soft lambkin -- Dancing on the hill-tops -- When fishes set umbrellas up -- The peacock has a score of eyes -- Pussy has a whiskered face -- The dog lies in his kennell -- If hope grew on a bush -- I planted a hand -- Under the ivy bush -- There is one that has ahead without an eye -- If a mouse could fly -- Sing me a Song -- The Lily has an air -- Margaret has a milking-pail -- In the meadow- what is the meadow -- A Frisky lamb -- Mix a pancake -- The wind has such a rainy sound -- Three little children -- Fly away, fly away over the sea -- Minnie b akes oaten cakes -- A white hen sitting -- Currents on a bush -- I have but one rose in the world -- Rosy maiden Winifred -- When the cows come home the milk is coming -- Roses blushing red and white -- "Ding a ding" -- A ring upon her finger -- "Ferry me across the water" -- When a mounting skylake sings -- Who has seen the wind -- The horses of the sea -- O sailor, come ashore -- A Diamond or a coal -- An emerald is as green as grass -- Boats sail on the rivers -- The lily has a smooth stalk -- Hurt no living thing -- I caught a little ladybird -- All the bells were ringing -- Wee wee husband -- I have a little husband -- The deal old woman in the lane -- Swift and sure the swallow -- "I dreamt I caught a little owl" -- What does the bee do -- I have a Poll parrot -- A house of cards -- The rose with such a bonny blush -- The rose that blushes rosy red -- Oh fair to see -- Clever little Willie wee -- The peach tree on the southern wall -- A rose has thorn as well as honey -- Is the moon tired? she looks so pale -- If stars dropped out of heaven -- "Goodbye iin fear, goodbye in sorrow" -- If the sun could tell us half -- If the moon came from heaven -- O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the easy -- What do the stars do -- Motherless baby and babyless mother -- Crimson curtains round my mother's bed -- Baby lies so fast asleep -- I know a baby, such a baby -- Lullaby, oh lullaby -- Lie a-bed
Pt.2. Poems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1893) -- Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk -- Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire -- I am a King -- Playing at bob cherry -- Blind from my birth
Pt.3. A Pageant and Other Poems (1881) -- Sonnets are full of love, and this is my tome -- The Key-Note -- The Months: a Pageant -- Pastime -- "Italia, Io Ti Saluto!" -- Mirrors of Life and Death -- A Ballad of Boding -- Yet a Little While ["I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek"] -- He and She -- Monna Innominata -- "Luscious and sorrowful" -- De Profundis -- Tempus Fugit -- Golden Glories -- Johnny -- "Hollow-sounding and Mysterious" -- Maiden May -- Till Tomorrow -- Death- Watches -- Touching "Never" -- Brandons Both -- A Life's Parallels -- At Last -- Golden Silences -- In the WIllow Shade -- Fluttered Wings -- A Fisher- Wife -- What's in a Name? -- Mariana -- Memento Mori -- "One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore" -- Buds and Babies -- Boy Johnny -- Freaks of Fashion -- An october Garden -- "Summer Is Ended" -- Passing and Glassing -- "I Will Arise" -- A Prodigal Son -- Soeur de la Misericorde -- An "Immurata" Sister -- "If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Now" -- The Thread of Life -- An Old-World Thicket -- "All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord" -- Later Life -- "For Thine Own Sake, O My God" -- Until the Day Break -- "Of Him That Was Ready to Perish" -- "Behold the Man!" -- The Descent from the Cross -- "It is Finished" -- An Easter Carol -- "Behold a Shaking" -- All Saints ["They are flocking from the east"] -- "Take Care of Him" -- A Martyr -- Why? -- "Love Is Strong as Death" [" 'I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee'"]
Pt.4. Poems added in Poems (1888, 1890) -- Birchington Churchyard -- One Sea-Side Grave -- Brother Bruin -- A Helpmeet for Him -- A Song of Flight -- A Wintery Sonnet -- Resurgam -- Today's Burden -- "There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight" -- Exultate Deo -- A Hope Carol -- Christmas Carols -- A Candlemas Dialogue -- Mary Magdalene and the Other Mary -- Patience of Hope
Pt.5 continued -- This near-at-hand land breeds pain be mea sure -- "Was Thy Wrath against the Sea?" -- "And there was no more Sea?" -- Roses on a brier -- We are of those who tremble at Thy word -- "Awake, thou that sleepest" -- We know not when, we know not where -- "I will left up mine eyes unto the Hills" -- "Then whose shall those things be?" -- "His Banner over me was Love" -- Beloved, yield thy time to God, for He -- TIme seems not short -- The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness -- "As the Doves to their windows" -- Oh knell of a passing time -- Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain -- "The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him" -- Time lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long -- "All flesh is Grass" -- Heaven's chimes are slow, but sure to strike at last -- "There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God" -- Parting after parting -- "They out their trust in Thee, and were not confounded" -- Short is time, and only time is bleak -- For Each -- For all -- New Jerusalem and its Citizens -- "The Holy City, New Jerusalem" -- When wickedness is broken as a tree -- Jerusalem of fire -- "She shall be brought unto the King" -- Who is this that cometh up not alone -- WHo sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a Bridge -- Antipas -- "Beautiful for situation" -- Lord, by what inconceivable dim road -- "As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country" -- Cast down but not destroyed, chastened not slain -- Life up thine eves to seek the invisible -- "Love is trong as Death" ["As flames that consume the mountians, as winds that coerce the sea"] -- "Let them rejoice in their beds" -- Slain in their high places: fallen on rest -- "What hath God wrought!" -- "Before the Throne, and before the Lamb" -- "He shall go on more out" -- Yea, blessed and jholy is he that hath part in the First Resurrection -- The Joy of Saintsm like incense turned to fire -- What are these lovely ones, yea, what are these? -- "The General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn" -- "Every one t hat is perfect shall be as his master" -- "As dying, and behold we live" -- "So great a cloud of Witnesses" -- Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful -- Safe where I cannot lie yet -- "Is it well with the child?" -- Dear Angels and dear disembodied Saints -- "To every seed his own body" -- "What good shall my life do me" -- Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims -- "Her Seed; It shall bruise thy head" -- "Judge nothing before the time" -- How great is little man -- Man's life is but a working day -- If not with hope of life -- "The day is at hand" -- "Endure hardness" -- "Whither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord" -- Where never tempest heaveth -- Marvel of marvels, if I myself should behold -- "What is that to thee? follow thou me" -- "Worship God" -- "Afterward he repented, and went" -- "Are they not all Ministering Spirits" -- Our life is long. Not so, Angels say -- Lord, what have I to offfer? sickening fear -- Joy is but sorrow -- Can I know it? -- Nay -- "When my heart is vexed I will complain" -- "Praying always" -- "As thy days, so shall thy strength be" -- A heavy heart, if ever heart was heavy -- If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living -- What is it Jesus saith unto the soul -- They lie at rest, our blessed dead -- "Ye that fear Him, both small and great" -- "Called to be Saints" -- The Sinner's own falut? So it was -- Who cares for earthly bread tho' white? -- Laughing Life cries at the feast -- "The End is not yet" -- Who would wish back the Saints upon our rought -- "That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is Man -- Oh each sa d word which is more sorrowful -- "I see that all things come to an end" -- "But Thy Commandment is exceeding broad" -- Sursam Corda -- O, ye, who are not dead and fit -- Where shall I find a white rose blowing -- "Redeeming the Time" -- "Now they desire a better Country" -- A Castle- Builder's World -- "These all wait upon Thee" -- "Doeth well . . . doeth better" -- Our Heaven must be within ourselves -- "Vanity of Vanities" -- The Hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walk -- Scarce tolerable life, which all life long -- All heaven is blazing yet -- "Balm in Gilead" -- "In the day of his Espousals" -- "She came from the uttermost part of the earth" -- Alleluia! or Alas! my heart is crying -- The Passion Flower hath sprung up tall -- God's Acre -- "The Flowers appear on the Earth" -- "Thou knewest. . . thou oughtest therefore" -- "Go in Peace" -- "Half Dead" -- "One of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced His Side" -- Where love is, there comes sorrow -- Bury Hope out of sight -- A Churchyard Song of Patient Hope -- One woe is past. Come what come will -- "Take no thought for the morrow" -- "Consider the Lilies of the field" -- "Son, remember" -- "Heaviness may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning" -- "The Will of the Lord be done" -- "Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven" -- "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth" -- "Then shall ye shout" -- Everything that is born must die -- Lord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth Thee -- Ch a ning Chimes -- "Thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine" -- Thro' burden and heat of the day -- "Then I commended Mirth" -- Sorrow hath a double voice -- Shadows today, while shadows show God's Will -- "Truly the Light is sweet" -- "Are ye not much better than they?" -- "yea, the sparrow hath found her an house" -- "I am small and of no reputation" -- O Christ my God Who seest the unseen -- Yea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy sword -- Sweetness of rest when Thou sheddest rest -- O foolish Soul! to make thy count -- Before the beginning Thou hast forknown the end -- The goat in sight! Look up and sing -- Looking back along life's trodden way
Pt.5. Verses (1893) -- "Out of the deep have i called unto Thee, O Lord" -- Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peace -- Seven vials hold Thy wrath: but what can hold -- "Where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt" -- "As the sparks fly upwards" -- Lord, make us all love all; that when we meet -- O Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy face -- It is not death, O Christ, to die for Thee -- Lord, grant us eyes to see and ears to hear -- "Cried out with Tears" -- O Lord, on Whom we gaze and dare not gaze -- "I will come and heal him" -- Ah, Lord, Lord, if my heart were right with Thine -- "The gold of that land is good" -- Weigh all my faults and follies righeously -- Lord, make me one with Thine own faithful ones -- "Lights of Lights" -- Chrish out all in all -- "The ransomed of the Lord" -- Lord, we are rivers running to thy sea -- "An exceeding bitter cry" -- O Lord, when Thou didst call me, didst Thou know -- "Thou, God, seest me" -- Lord Jesus, who would think t hat I am Thine -- "The Name of Jesus -- Lord God of Hosts, most Holy and most High -- Lord, what have I have I may offer Thee -- If I should say "my heart is in my home" -- Leaf from leaf Christ knows -- Lord, carry me. -- Nay, but I grant thee strength -- Lord, I am here.- but , child, I look for thee -- New creatures; the Creator still the same -- "King of Kings and Lord of Lords" -- Thy Name, O Christ, as incense streaming forth -- "The Good Shepherd" -- "Rejoice with Me" -- Shall not the judge of all the earth do right -- Me and my gift: kind Lord, behold -- He cannot deny Himself" -- "Slain from the foundation of the world" -- Lord Jesus, Thou art sweetness to my soul -- I, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small -- "Because He first loved us" -- Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not we -- As the dove which found no rest -- "Thou art Fairer than the children of men" -- "As the Apple Tree among the trees of wood" -- None other Lamb, none other Name -- "Thy Friend and thy Father's Friends forget not" -- "Surely He hath borne our griefs" -- "They toil not, neither do they spin" -- Darness and light are both alike to Thee -- "And now why tarriest thous?" -- Have I not striven, My God, and watched and prayed -- "God is our Hope and Strength" -- Day and night the Accuser makes no pause -- O mine enemy -- Lord, dost Thou look on ,e, and will not I -- "Peace I leave with you" -- O Christ our All in each, our All in all -- Because Thy Loive hath sought me -- Thy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse -- "Like as the hart desireth the water brooks" -- "That where I am, there ye may be also" -- "Judge not according to the apperance" -- My God, wilt Thou accept, and will not we -- A chill blank world, Yet over the utmost sea -- "The Chiefest among ten thousand
Pt.5. continued -- Some Feasts and Fasts -- Advent Sunday -- Advent -- SOoner or later; yet at last -- Christmas Eve -- Christmas Day -- Christmastide -- St. John, Apostle -- "Beloved, let us love one another," says St. John -- Holy Innocents -- Unspotted lambs to follow the one Lamb -- Epiphany -- Epiphanytide -- Septuagesima -- Sexagesima -- That Eden of earth's surnise cannt vie -- Quinquagesima -- Piteous my rhyme is -- Ash Wednesday -- Good Lord, today -- Lent -- Embertide -- Mid-Lent -- Passiontide -- Palm Sunday -- Monday in Holy Week -- Tuesday in Holy Week -- Wednesday in Holy Week -- Maundy Thursday -- Good Friday Morning -- Good Friday -- Good Friday Evening -- "A bundle to myrrh is my Well-beloved to me" -- Easter Even -- Our Church Palms are budding willow twigs -- Easter Daty -- Easter Monday -- Easter Tuesday -- Rogationtide -- Ascension Eve -- Ascension Day -- Whitsun Eve -- Whitsun Day -- Whitsun Monday -- Whitsun Tuesday -- Trinity Sunday -- Conversion of St. Paul -- In weariness and painfulness St. Paul -- Vigil of the PResentation -- Feast of the Presentation -- THe Purification of St. Mary the Virgin -- Virgil of teh Annunciation -- Feast of the Annunciation -- Herself a rose, who bore the Rose -- St. Mark -- St. Barnabas -- Vigil of St. Peter -- St. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?" -- I followed Thee, my God, I follwed Thee -- Vigil of St. Bartholomew -- St. Bartholomew -- St. Michael and All Angels -- Vigil of All Saints -- All Saints ["As grains of san d, as stars, as drops of dew"] -- All Saints: Martyrs -- "I gave a sweet smell" -- har! The Allelusias of the great salvation -- A Song for the feast of All Saints -- Sunday before Advent -- Gifts and Graces -- Love loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth Thee Lord, give me love that I may love Thee, much -- "As a king, . . . . unto the King" -- O ye who love today -- "pPerfect Love casteth out Fear" -- Hope is the counterpoise of fear -- "Subject to liek Passions as we are" -- Experience bows a sweet contented face -- "Charity never Faileth" -- All beneath the sun hasterth -- If thos be dead, forgive and thos shalf live -- "Let Patience have her perfect work" -- Patience must swell with Lovem for Love and Sorrow -- "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord" -- What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love still -- Love, make me pure -- Love, to be love, must walk Thy way -- Lord, I am feeble and of mean account -- Tune me, O Lord, into one harmony -- "They shall be as white as snow" -- Thy lilies drink the dew -- "When I was in trouble i called upon the Lord" -- Grant us such grace that we may work Thy Will -- "Who hath despised the day of small things" -- "Do this, and he doeth it" -- "That no man take thy Crown" -- "Ye are come unto Mount Sion" -- "Sit down in the lowest room" -- "Lord, it is good for us to be here" -- Lord, grant us grace to rest upon Thy word -- The World. Self- Destruction -- "A vain Shadow" -- "Lord, save us, we perish" -- What is this above thy head -- Babylon the Great -- "Standing afar off for the fear of her torment" -- "O Luficfer, Son of the Morning" -- Alas, alas! for the self-destroyed -- As froth on the face of the deep -- "Where the ir worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched" -- Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flying -- Divers Worlds, Time and Eternity -- Earth has clear call of daily bells -- "escape to the Mountian" -- I lift mine eyes to see: earth vanisheth -- "Yet a little while" ["Heaven is no far, tho' far the sky"] -- "Behold, it was very good" -- "Whatsoever is right, that shall ye recieve"
Analysis Poetry in English 1837-1900 Texts
Notes Bibliography: p.317-319. _ Includes index
In 3 vols
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject English poetry.
Author Crump, R. W. (Rebecca W.), 1944-
LC no. 78005571
ISBN 0807103586 (v. 1)
0807112461 (v. 2)
Other Titles Poems