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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Matches Found: 1087 4TH MAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My carrier pigeon is a 'fancy' pigeon Last Line: And give a kiss to dark-locked alice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Pigeons A BABY'S CRADLE WITH NO BABY IN IT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The baby waiting here Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death – Children A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is love so prone to change and rot Last Line: This is forget-me-not and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Passion A BETTER RESURRECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no wit, no words, no tears Last Line: O jesus, drink of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Pain; Belief; Creed; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Suffering; Misery A BIRD SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a year almost that I have not seen her Last Line: To build this weather one nest together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Swallows A BIRD'S-EYE-VIEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Croak, croak, croak Last Line: Remember, black and lonely. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a singing bird Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A BRIDE SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the vales to my love Last Line: O my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Wedding Song; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will accept thy will to do and be Last Line: I do not deprecate Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Wills A BUNDLE OF MYRRH IS MY WELL-BELOVED UNTO ME', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy cross cruciferous Last Line: Thy cross cruciferous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Crucifixion, The A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead Last Line: Hallelujah, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Old Friends Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares A CANDLEMAS DIALOGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love brought me down Last Line: And work thy will.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Candlemas A CASTLE-BUILDER'S WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it Last Line: Shades of bodies without souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Emptiness; Desolation A CHEERFUL SAGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tak'n his wage Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death A CHILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can lambkins do Last Line: Found for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Lampkins Subject(s): Cold; Sleep A CHILL BLANK WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea Last Line: Forget not my life, o my lord, forget not my death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Prayer; Mortality A CHILLY NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rose at the dead of night Last Line: And I was indeed alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Moon; Mothers; Night; Supernatural; Bedtime A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bleak mid-winter Last Line: Give my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Gift Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Christmas Gifts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the paling of the stars Last Line: To hail the king of glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ON THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, thank god, we do believe Last Line: Firstborn of god and heir of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Praise; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds had an angel Last Line: Through all the heavenly height. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Grandchildren; Magi; Grandsons; Granddaughters A CHURCHYARD SONG OF PATIENT HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All tears done away with the bitter unquiet sea Last Line: Beloved to the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A COUNSEL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep for the glory departed Last Line: And have paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hope; Dead, The; Paradise; Optimism A DAUGHTER OF EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fool I was to sleep at noon Last Line: I sit alone with sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A DEATH OF A FIRST-BORN (JANUARY 14, 1892), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One young life lost, two happy young lives blighted Last Line: Shall rise up of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A DIRGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why were you born when the snow was falling? Last Line: For sweet things dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for my love, my only love Last Line: Most near altho' most far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Belief; Creed A DUMB FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I planted a young tree when I was young Last Line: In shade the cypress weaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons; Tears; Trees A FAIR WORLD THOUGH A FALLEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that the world is fair, in spite Last Line: Thy cross cruciferous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Longing; Comfort A FISHER'S-WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soonest mended, nothing said Last Line: And he and I so far apart! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A FROG'S FATE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemptuous of his home beyond Last Line: Is the one frog we dwell upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Frog Subject(s): Animals; Frogs A HARVEST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gate of death, of the blessed night Last Line: Then for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Harvest A HEAVY HEART, IF EVER HEART WAS HEAVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah blessed heaviness if such they be! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; God A HELPMEET FOR HIM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman was made for man's delight Last Line: Woman was made. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women A HOPE CAROL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night was near, a day was near Last Line: I long to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism A HOPELESS CASE (NYDIA), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dream of that which cannot be Last Line: Shut in from cold and wind and storm of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherds watch their flocks by night Last Line: The offspring of this world below. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Theology A LIFE'S PARALLELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never on this side of the grave again Last Line: Ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Consolation A MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is over the horrible pain Last Line: Shall I joy with her joy in the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Martyrs; Sleep; Dead, The; Joy; Delight A MARTYR: THE VIGIL OF THE FEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inner not outer, without gnash of teeth Last Line: Shorten the race and lift me to the goal. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Martyrs A MOTHER'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, - I love you Last Line: Love me,--I love you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 2 Subject(s): Mothers A NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves Last Line: Put on a glory, and my soul expand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fidelity; Flowers; Love; Soul; Faithfulness; Constancy A PEAL OF BELLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the bells wantonly Last Line: His death is full, and mine begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Death; Dead, The A POOR OLD DOG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old dog Last Line: Spare, and be spared: -- or who shall plead for thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Word For The Dumb Subject(s): Animals; Pity A PORTRAIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave up beauty in her tender youth Last Line: To raise it with the saints in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women A PRAYER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clother of the lily, feeder of the sparrow Last Line: Hallowed bed according to thy word. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): They Toil Not Neither Do They Spin Subject(s): Prayer A PRODIGAL SON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does that lamp still burn in my father's house Last Line: "grant me, father, a servant's place." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ A RING POSY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jess and jill are pretty girls Last Line: Yet even there I lead the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love A ROSE PLANT IN JERICHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn I plucked a rose and gave it thee Last Line: Yea, give thy very self to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Jericho; Roses A ROUNDEL SEEMS TO FIT A ROUND OF DAYS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In building up, all poets to amaze Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Roundels; Poetry & Poets A ROYAL PRINCESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, a princess, king-descended, deckt with jewels, gilded, drest Last Line: I, if I perish, perish: in the name of god I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poverty; Women A SICK CHILD'S MEDITATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and weariness, aching eyes and head Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Love; Meditation; Pain; Sickness; Childhood; Suffering; Misery; Illness A SKETCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blindest buzzard that I know Last Line: Where? What? And turn away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Visually Handicapped A SMILE AND A SIGH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A smile because the nights are short Last Line: We live who would be dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time A SONG FOR THE LEAST OF ALL SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is the key of life and death Last Line: And I love thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ A SONG OF FLIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While we slumber and sleep Last Line: And home lies beyond the stars and the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flight; Flying A SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, comest thou to me Last Line: The place to lay thy head! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness A SOUL; A STUDY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands as pale as parian statues stand Last Line: Her face and will athirst against the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Statues; Women; Women & Religion A SUMMER WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live all thy sweet life through Last Line: Cool with refreshing dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer; Wishes A TESTIMONY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said of laughter: it is vain Last Line: Witnessed that all are vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity A TRIAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three sang of love together Last Line: All on the threshold, yet all short of life. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love A TRUE STORY (CONTINUED), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this great city now the haunt Last Line: Where purest love they feel; Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Nature; Rome, Italy A VAIN SHADOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world, - what a world, ah me Last Line: As what is and passes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vanity A WINTRY SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A robin said: the spring will never come Last Line: Dimpled his blue, yet thirsted evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter A WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I were a little bird Last Line: That springs again no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Memory; Wishes; Optimism A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean A YEAR AFTERWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things are so changed since last we met Last Line: And the same stars and silent sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise A YEAR'S WINDFALLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the wind of january Last Line: Brings back the snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): January ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ADVENT (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This advent moon shines cold and clear Last Line: My fair one, come away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Advent ADVENT (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come,' thou dost say to angels Last Line: And we will answer, 'come.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Advent ADVENT (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth grown old, yet still so green Last Line: Earth grown old. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Advent Subject(s): Advent; Christmas; Nativity, The ADVENT SUNDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, the bridegroom cometh Last Line: To meet him in a rapture with a shout. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Advent AFTER ALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought your search was over. So I thought Last Line: "and sigh indeed for home in banishment."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Discovery Subject(s): Seeking; Home; Peace; Heaven AFTER COMMUNION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I call thee lord, who art my god Last Line: How will it be with me in time of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Eucharist; Jesus Christ; Communion AFTER DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept Last Line: To know he still is warm tho' I am cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER THIS THE JUDGEMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As eager homebound traveller to the goal Last Line: Thy life then ransomed mine, my god, my god! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims AFTERWARD HE REPENTED, AND WENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when my heart was whole I kept it back Last Line: And answer 'give it me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forgiveness; God; Sin AH LORD, LORD, IF MY HEART WERE RIGHT WITH THINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With us long sought, long loved, to me:and much forgiven Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ ALAS, ALAS! FOR THE SELF-DESTROYED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For a fulness emptied into the void Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Destruction; Saints ALL BENEATH THE SUN HASTETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All hopeful, day is nearing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Hope ALL FLESH IS GRASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So brief a life, and then an endless life Last Line: "dies away ""alas!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience; Grief ALL HEAVEN IS BLAZING YET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O hope deferred, hope still Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Indecision; Hope ALL NIGHT I DREAM YOU LOVE ME WELL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or never doubt again Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Reality ALL SAINTS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have brought gold and spices to my king Last Line: For lo! His banner over thee is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Theology ALL SAINTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As grains of sand, as stars, as drops of dew Last Line: Where god makes glad his saints, for god is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints ALL SAINTS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are flocking from the east Last Line: And praise in mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Saints ALL SAINTS: MARTYRS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once slain for him who first was slain for them Last Line: One god, the father, son, and holy ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Martyrs ALL THINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus alone: - if thus it were to me Last Line: Some time below till timeless time above. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Jesus Alone Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love ALL THINGS WAIT UPON THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent eyes not ours Last Line: As queens of kings. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): These All Wait Upon Thee Subject(s): Animals ALL THY WORKS PRAISE THEE, O LORD; A PROCESSIONAL OF CREATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I all-creation sing my song of praise Last Line: Praise god, praise god, praise god, his creature saith. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Creation ALLELUIA! OR ALAS! MY HEART IS CRYING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Life descending soon to be ascending Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Heaven ALONE LORD GOD, IN WHOM OUR TRUST AND PEACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love offering love on love's self-feeding fire Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship ALONG THE HIGHROAD THE WAY IS TOO LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On me, for the broad light of many suns Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Walking; Friendship AMEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is over. What is over Last Line: And my garden teem with spices. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Harvest; Wheat; Death AMOR MUNDI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing Last Line: "this downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AN ALPHABET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A is the alphabet, a at its head Last Line: Or zebu, or zoophyte, seen at the zoo. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Alphabet Verse AN ANSWER; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make it glad with a goodly crop Last Line: Repaying the blood that fed the soil. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Trees AN APPLE GATHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree Last Line: Fell fast I loitered still. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Apple Trees; Trees AN EASTER CAROL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring bursts today Last Line: Angels and men and birds and everything. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection AN ECHO FROM WILLOW-WOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two gazed into a pool, he gazed and she Last Line: So those hearts joined, and ah were parted so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Parting AN END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, strong as death, is dead Last Line: In the long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN EXCEEDING BITTER CRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contempt and pangs and haunting fears Last Line: Would raise thy praises now! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AN IMMURATA SISTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life flows down to death; we cannot bind Last Line: Thou whole burnt-offering! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AN OCTOBER GARDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my autumn garden I was fain Last Line: A rose to me though at the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening AN OLD-WORLD THICKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake or sleeping (for I know not which) Last Line: Still journeying toward the sunset and their rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AND NOW WHY TARRIEST THOU, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, grant us grace to mount by steps of grace Last Line: In thee our all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AND THERE WAS NO MORE SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices from above and from beneath Last Line: Accounting love thy lot and love thine end. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AND THITHER THOU, BELOVED, AND THITHER I, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith Last Line: For many a weary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ANNIE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not for earthly bread, annie Last Line: To dwell in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven; Life; Love; Roses; Paradise ANOTHER SPRING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might see another spring Last Line: Be glad to-day and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring ANTIPAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hidden from the darkness of our mortal sight Last Line: Wishless in the sanctuary of christ's embrace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, whomsoever thou shalt send to me Last Line: For me as I for thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ARE YE NOT MUCH BETTER THAN THEY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twig sprouteth Last Line: Till the awful day of mowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ARIADNE TO THESEUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight to the river Last Line: Be mine the sad alloy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Pain; Theseus; Unfaithfulness; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy AS A KING -- UNTO THE KING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love doth so grace and dignify Last Line: If we should come to love this world too much? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts AS COLD WATERS TO A THIRSTY SOUL, SO IS GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-haired, lily-white Last Line: Yea, thus they joyed who now are overjoyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem AS DYING, AND BEHOLD WE LIVE!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As dying Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death AS FROTH ON THE FACE OF THE DEEP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O my god, unto thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God AS THE APPLE TREE AMONG THE TREES OF THE WOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one red rose in a garden where all other roses are white Last Line: Chief and centre of all, in fellowship yet alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ AS THE DOVE, WHICH FOUND NO REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a grave Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Noah (bible); Doves; Heaven AS THE DOVES TO THEIR WINDOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They throng from the east and the west Last Line: They throng. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, grant us wills to trust thee with such aim Last Line: Or face the vision beatifical. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AS THY DAYS, SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day that hath no tinge of night Last Line: Patient by the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ASCENSION DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christ went up to heaven Last Line: Is that his cloud?' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASCENSION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord almighty who hast formed us weak Last Line: We may pursue thy steps, lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day ASH WEDNESDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, do I love thee Last Line: Love me and make me love thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ash Wednesday ASH WEDNESDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, my god, have mercy on my sin Last Line: To tell it in. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Repentance; Penitence AT HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was dead, my spirit turned Last Line: That tarrieth but a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Gays & Lesbians; Supernatural; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men AT LAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many have sung of love a root of bane Last Line: Purchased, but at the cost of all things here. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina AT SET OF SUN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One step more and the race is ended Last Line: And sets the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Septuagesima AT THE GOAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who would wish back the saints upon our rough Last Line: Of rest, and good the sleep I took'? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Immortality AUTUMN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care flieth / hope and fear together Last Line: In blank autumn who could speak of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fear; Hope; Love; Seasons; Fall; Optimism AUTUMN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell alone -- I dwell alone, alone Last Line: And lonesome, very lonesome, is my strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AUTUMN VIOLETS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep love for youth, and violets for the spring Last Line: A grateful ruth tho' gleaning scanty corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Violets AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPEST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is far spent, the day is at hand Last Line: The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BABYLON THE GREAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Foul is she and ill-favoured, set askew Last Line: And she amid her pomp are set on fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BALLAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft white lamb in the daisy meadow Last Line: In the nest of paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses BALM IN GILEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsease I found, where love - lies bleeding Last Line: Heartsease I found. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BEAUTIFUL FOR SITUATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely city in a lovely land Last Line: Faint yet pursuing, home on tireless feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem BEAUTY IS VAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While roses are so red Last Line: And hide her away in a shroud. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Vanity BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was hungry, and thou feddest me Last Line: Half I keep for thee.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ BECAUSE THY LOVE HATH SOUGHT ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And shall not mine crave back for thine? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship BEFORE THE THRONE, AND BEFORE THE LAMB, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the voice of many waters all saints sing as one Last Line: As the voice of many waters all saints sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BEHOLD A SHAKING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man rising to the doom that shall not err Last Line: Of happy heaven, his sheep home to the pen Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; God; Death BEHOLD THE MAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall christ hang on the cross, and we not look Last Line: And fire and fasts and tearful night watches. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who standeth at the gate? - a woman old Last Line: And now at length thy sorrow is too late Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kindness; Cruelty; Charity; Faith; Sin BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are fair, if we had eyes to see Last Line: All things are fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Beloved, let us love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Eagles; Doves BELOVED, YIELD THY TIME TO GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BIRCHINGTON CHURCH-YARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lowly hill which overlooks a flat Last Line: Silent and neither swift nor slow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Churchyards; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) BIRD OR BEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did any bird come flying Last Line: Were preachers sent from god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BIRD RAPTURES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrise wakes the lark to sing Last Line: Leave us to-night the nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Dawn; Sunrise BIRDS OF PARADISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden-winged, silver-winged Last Line: The paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Paradise: In A Symbol Subject(s): Birds; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Paradise BITTER FOR SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is gone with all its roses Last Line: And the last buds cease blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Seasons; Winter; Fall BLESSED AND HOLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection! Last Line: Yea, blessed and holy is he. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is enough, enough, one said Last Line: To the purple west. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Nature; Reading BOY JOHNNY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you'll busk you as a bride Last Line: O boy johnny.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRANDON'S BOTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh fair, milly brandon, a young maid Last Line: And if it is no more a flower I love it as a thorn.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BROTHER BRUIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dancing bear grotesque and funny Last Line: The hard old man may have repented. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Bears BUDS AND BABIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A million buds are born that never blow Last Line: Or all in vain was good. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BURIED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest where the lilies fade Last Line: The snow upon thy bosom. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Soul; Dead, The BURY HOPE OUT OF SIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Alive in death's eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Death; Mortality BUT THY COMMANDMENT IS EXCEEDING BROAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once again to wake, nor wish to sleep Last Line: Once again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina BY THE SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the sea moan evermore? Last Line: Without a pang, and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean BY THE WATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are rivers lapsing down Last Line: And ah, where is my friend? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): River Thames Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Lilies; Thames (river) BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O daughter of babylon Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babylonian Exodus BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON (B.C. 570), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where I dwell, I waste to skin and bone Last Line: And end me as a tale ends that is told. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Psalm 137. By The Waters Of Babylon Subject(s): Jesus Christ BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, if I claim too much of you Last Line: Have borne you in their arms and fetched you hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina CALLED TO BE SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lowest place. Ah, lord how steep and high Last Line: Waits there prepared for it. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina CAN I KNOW IT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I know it? -- nay Last Line: None will say thee nay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina CANNOT SWEETEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that's water you wash your hands in Last Line: Dropping dropping dropping on it Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Blood; Sin; Deception CARDINAL NEWMAN ('IN THE GRAVE, WHITHER THOU GOEST'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O weary champion of the cross, lie still Last Line: Thy best its best, please god, thy best its best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Love; Newman, John Henry, Cardinal (1801-1890) CHANGING CHIMES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not warning that our fathers lacked Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I praised the myrtle and the rose Last Line: In charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Charity; Love; Sun; Philanthropy CHARITY NEVER FAILETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is love, it comforts in extremity Last Line: Such is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy CHARON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cottage near the styx Last Line: Charon, cerberus, and co. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charon; Death; Ferry Boats; Styx (river); Dead, The CHILD'S TALK IN APRIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish you were a pleasant wren Last Line: And build our happy nest again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Wrens CHRIST CAN GIVE THEE HEART, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But christ can give thee heart who lioveth thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ CHRISTIAN AND JEW; A DIALOGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh happy, happy land! Last Line: Let life begin.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Jews; Judaism CHRISTMAS CAROL: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoso hears a chiming for christmas at the nighest Last Line: Life is good, and death is good, for christ is best.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols CHRISTMAS CAROL: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy heavenly chime Last Line: For christ is born a king.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols CHRISTMAS CAROL: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! New born jesus Last Line: To one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas Carols CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A baby is a harmless thing Last Line: Carol we and worship we. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CHRISTMAS EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christmas hath darkness Last Line: Brought for us so low. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CLOUDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White sheep, white sheep Last Line: Where do you go? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clouds COBWEBS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a land with neither night nor day Last Line: No future hope, nor fear for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids COME UNTO ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the time gone by when thought of christ Last Line: And love is christ, and christ is all in all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ CONFLUENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As rivers seek the sea Last Line: Thee at last? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina CONSIDER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider / the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief Last Line: To do us good. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solomon most glorious in array Last Line: Thou who gatherest lilies, gather us and wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CONVERSION OF ST.PAUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed paul elect to grace Last Line: When at the goal he welcomes thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conversion; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus COR MIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Friendship; Hearts; Roses; Seasons CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COUNTERBLAST ON PENNY TRUMPET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mr. Bright retiring does not please Last Line: As others see us! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Forgiveness; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Law & Lawyers; Clemency COUPLET (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer! Last Line: As the soldier remarked whose post lay in the rear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soldiers COUPLET (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faith and hope are wings to love Last Line: Silver wings to golden dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism COUSIN KATE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was a cottage-maiden Last Line: To wear his coronet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love CRIED OUT WITH TEARS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief Last Line: Thou face to face with me and eye to eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DARKNESS AND LIGHT ARE BOTH ALIKE TO THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then I would flee away to rest with thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship; Heaven DARNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If mother nature patches the leaves of trees and vines Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DAY AND NIGHT THE ACCUSER MAKES NO PAUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the worm that gnaws Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Salvation DAY DREAMS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gazing through her chamber window Last Line: While I wondered what she meant. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Reflection' Subject(s): Longing; Love; Peace; Soul DAYS OF VANITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream that waketh Last Line: Such is life that dieth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Vanity DE PROFUNDIS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh why is heaven built so far Last Line: And catch at hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DEAD BEFORE DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Changed and cold, how changed and very cold Last Line: So cold and lost for ever evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope newborn one pleasant morn Last Line: No not in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Optimism DEAR ANGELS AND DEAR DISEMBODIED SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rise and run and rest in paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Angels; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Worship DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grave-worm revels now Last Line: It is the second birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me: doth it not grieve thee to lie here Last Line: I shall lie safe at rest and freed from care Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience; Death; God; Heaven; Rest DEATH WATCHES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring spreads one green lap of flowers Last Line: And pale the star-lights follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S CHILL BETWEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not: let me breathe a little Last Line: For he is not come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DESPAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose the moon in glory Last Line: "a bringing in the light." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Night; Stars; Bedtime DESPISED AND REJECTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sun has set, I dwell Last Line: The mark of blood for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology DITTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch with me, men, women, and children dear Last Line: I, love, am thine; thou, lord my god, art mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DIVINE AND HUMAN PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would the saints could hear our prayers Last Line: "as I was, so thou art." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Prayer; Saints; Tears DO THIS, AND HE DOETH IT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Content to come, content to go Last Line: Each in his place. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DOETH WELL -- DOETH BETTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love whose heart is tender said to me Last Line: My love whose heart is tender. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DOST THOU NOT CARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love and love not: lord, it breaks my heart Last Line: Do I not live for thee? Leave me to-morrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ DOWNCAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These roses are as perfect as of old Last Line: The very fountain of delight is dry. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DREAM LAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where sunless rivers weep Last Line: Her perfect peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina DREAM-LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young love lies sleeping Last Line: Return to nestle here. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love EARTH AND HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water calmly flowing Last Line: In heaven is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Soul; World; Paradise EARTH HAS CLEAR CALL OF DAILY BELLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells EASTER DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words cannot utter Last Line: Christ's day and ours. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER EVEN (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tempest over and gone, the calm begun Last Line: The shaking and the breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER EVEN (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing more that they can do Last Line: And with him bring his sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; The Resurrection EASTER MONDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the rain a world is growing green Last Line: Let us wax and wane. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christianity; Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection EASTER MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun arises from the sea Last Line: For ever and for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Morning; Nature; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER TUESDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together with my dead body shall they arise Last Line: Together with my dead body shall they. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection ECHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in the silence of the night Last Line: As long ago, my love, how long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of ELEANOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cherry-red her mouth was Last Line: Joyfully borne along. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Singing & Singers; Women ELLEN MIDDLETON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise me; undraw the curtain; that is well Last Line: Whose faith was hidden and whose love was vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed EMBERTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a saint - how canst thou tell that he Last Line: Lo, I, with the child god hath given to me!' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina EN ROUTE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore art thou strange Last Line: Dear land, take my tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians ENDURANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ENDURE HARDNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold wind stirs the blackthorn Last Line: That I am thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Consolation ENRICA, 1865, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came among us from the south Last Line: Deep at our deepest, strong and free. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women EPIPHANY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord babe, if thou art he Last Line: Come, worship christ together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship EPIPHANYTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trembling before thee we fall down to adore thee Last Line: Heart and soul and spirit -- to bring all and worship thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina EPITAPH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slave yet wearing on my head a crown Last Line: I fell a victim to the jealous turk. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Epitaphs; Slavery; Tears; Serfs ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I peered within, and saw a world of sin Last Line: Lord, make me such as they. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ETERNAL LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Piteous my rhyme is Last Line: Is all in all then. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Poetry & Poets EVA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I loved him all too well Last Line: Ye may meet at length in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sin; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While I sit at the door, / sick to gaze within Last Line: His tongue out with its fork. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Animals; Bible; Religion; Eve; Theology EVERY ONE THAT IS PERFECT SHALL BE AS HIS MASTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can one man, how can all men Last Line: Love makes great the great and small. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Worship EVERYTHING THAT IS BORN MUST DIE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Everything Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Love EXPERIENCE BOWS A SWEET CONTENTED FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Touches, embraces, hugs the invisible Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Experience EXULTATE DEO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a flower hath perfume for its dower Last Line: Until he walk in white. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina EYE HATH NOT SEEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our feet shall tread upon the stars Last Line: Who by thy promise with thee dwells Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; God; Saints FAINT YET PURSUING', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond this shadow and this turbulent sea Last Line: My heart fails, yet I follow on to know Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea; Persistence; Conduct Of Life FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faith of years is broken Last Line: Once bound my soul to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Fate; Life; Love; Soul; Women; Belief; Creed; Destiny FATA MORGANA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blue-eyed phantom far before Last Line: Lie down and sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina FATHER AND LOVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If underneath the water Last Line: Anymore? Nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Peter Grump Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whereto shall we liken this blessed mary virgin Last Line: Echoing on the music of glorious gabriel. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Annunciation, The FEAST OF THE PRESENTATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O first fruits of our grain Last Line: A bruised reed bowed low before thy gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Feasts FLORAL TEACHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye red-blushing summer roses, ye Last Line: But rest awhile waiting the morning beam. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Life; Roses; World FLUTTERED WINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The splendor of the kindling day Last Line: Grow dim to thee who art so fain to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina FOLLOW THOU ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, carry me - nay, but I grant thee strength Last Line: Follow thou me along my way of grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ FOR A MERCY RECEIVED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who spared me what I feared Last Line: To do, and make me love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Mercy; Dead, The FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness FOR ALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's harvest is past, his summer is ended Last Line: Man's harvest is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina FOR EACH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harvest is done, its promise is ended Last Line: My harvest is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina FOR HENRIETTA POLYDORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the land and on the sea Last Line: Be best beloved and love us best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Sea; Sin; Ocean FOR ONE SAKE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One passed me like a flash of lightning by Last Line: Dream while I wake and dream on while I sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; War; Memory FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the low winds singing Last Line: None must come save you and she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Brooks; Mothers; Wind; Streams; Creeks FOR THINE OWN SAKE, O MY GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearied of sinning, wearied of repentance Last Line: I plead thyself with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Sin FORGET ME NOT!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget me not! Forget me not!' Last Line: No more will be delayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina FOUR CHARADES: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first is no proof of my second Last Line: You show yourself clearly my whole. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Riddles; Faith FOUR CHARADES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first may be firstborn Last Line: Who are from talent free. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children FOUR CHARADES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many authors are my first Last Line: And her a goddess bore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Authors And Authorship FOUR CHARADES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me you often meet / in london's crowded street Last Line: Though he may have the temper and meekness of a lamb. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Two Engimas: 2 Subject(s): Friendship FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done with hope Last Line: But mine own crown tomorrow morn: Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Silence; Optimism FREAKS OF FASHION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such a hubbub in the nests Last Line: "anything, everything!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds FROM EARLY DAWN UNTIL THE FLUSH OF NOON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Surely a chill shall come & this go hence Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Joy FROM HOUSE TO HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first was like a dream through summer heat Last Line: And stay upon my god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; God; Angels FROM METASTASIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, last, and dearest Last Line: So love I thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Change; Erotic Love FROM SUNSET TO STAR RISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not Last Line: On sometime summer's unreturning track. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Memory; Night FROM THE ANTIQUE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind shall lull us yet Last Line: Shall sleep and sleep for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): From The Antique Subject(s): Love FROM THE ANTIQUE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a weary life, it is, she said Last Line: Would make and weary and fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lament; Life; Women GO IN PEACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can peach renew lost bloom Last Line: God who worked then is working now. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Leprosy; Renewal; God GOBLIN MARKET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening / maids heard the goblins cry Last Line: "to strengthen whilst one stands." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fairies; Gays & Lesbians; Sisters; Elves; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men GOD IS OUR HOPE AND STRENGTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tempest and terror below Last Line: Till we gaze on thee face unto face, and respond to thee love unto love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ GOD'S ACRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, garden of confident hope Last Line: Each and all one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Gardens & Gardening; Flowers GOLDEN GLORIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttercup is like a golden cup Last Line: Sucks from sweet hearts of flowers and stores and sips. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs GOLDEN HOLLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Common holly bears a berry Last Line: To cheer an old friend's eyes and nose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Holly; Roses; Nativity, The GOLDEN SILENCES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is silence that saith, 'ah me!' Last Line: While silences vanish away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Silence GONE BEFORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was most like a rose when it flushes rarest Last Line: Heart-pierced thro' and thro'. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Love; Singing & Singers GONE FOR EVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rosebud blooming Last Line: For the same bird and flower Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience GONE TO HIS REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would have it so Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Mortality; Death – Animals GOOD FRIDAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a stone, and not a sheep Last Line: And smite a rock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice GOOD FRIDAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus christ, grown faint upon the cross Last Line: Heart, o lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY EVENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cherub's heart or hand for us might ache Last Line: More and yet more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up thy hill of sorrows Last Line: To a throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week GRANT US SUCH GRACE THAT WE MAY WORK THY WILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Grant us such grace Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer GROWN AND FLOWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my love from green of spring Last Line: Now bitter bitter grown to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of GROWN COLD; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man asked me: what is love? I turned Last Line: To rest when all its gladness goeth by! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Hearts; Love - Nature Of GUESSES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a chance that made her pause Last Line: And love with love that endeth not. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death HAIL, NOBLE FACE OF NOBLE FRIEND!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love starts the course, love seals the end Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Christmas HALF DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ the life, look on me where I lie Last Line: It was not they died for us, it was thou. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice HARK! THE ALLELUIAS OF THE GREAT SALVATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Having kept the truth, may enter in Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Salvation HAVE I NOT STRIVEN, MY GOD, AND WATCHED AND PRAYED?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Confessing me to angels and to men? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you forgotten how one summer night Last Line: Ah how then is it I cannot forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HE AND SHE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should one of us remember Last Line: And not be sure as yet.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love still is love, and doeth all things well Last Line: Come what will. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ HE SHALL GO NO MORE OUT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once within, within for evermore Last Line: Once within. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HEART'S CHILL BETWEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not chide him, though I knew Last Line: Before the sun shall set. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is heaven? 'tis a country Last Line: Lord! Admit me, or I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN'S CHIMES ARE SLOW, BUT SURE TO STRIKE AT LAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then the time is past Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Transience; Bells HEAVINESS MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT, JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No thing is great on this side of the grave Last Line: And revelled in the land of no more night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HELEN GREY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because one loves you, helen grey Last Line: When you yourself are nipped and grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Time HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HERSELF A ROSE WHO BORE THE ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spouse, sister, mother,' jesus saith Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary, Mother Of Jesu HIS BANNER OVER ME WAS LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that world we weary to attain Last Line: In that world. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HOLD THOU ME FAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus, who would think that I am thine Last Line: That I am thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOLLOW-SOUNDING AND MYSTERIOUS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no replying Last Line: Wind's sighing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers HOLY INNOCENTS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little baby, sleep Last Line: And love and warmth to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina HOLY INNOCENTS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They scarcely waked before they slept Last Line: Dear mothers, come: for heaven is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Death - Babies; Paradise HOMEWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest Last Line: "and testifies: ""god's will is alway best." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; World; Paradise HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not that death of grief Last Line: And surely will uprise the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism HOPE IS THE COUNTERPOISE OF FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And both befit us here Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Hope HOPING AGAINST HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he would come today, today, today Last Line: But sleep on all the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism HOW GREAT IS LITTLE MAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For what he will he can Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mankind; Poverty; Wealth HOW LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is long - not so the angels say Last Line: That where thou art there thy beloved might be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality HOW ONE CHOSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the sea, in a green land Last Line: "seek you, for I am wearied out." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Youth HUSBAND AND WIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh kiss me once before I go Last Line: "I would have kissed him now." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Kisses; Life; Love; Marriage; Separation; Isolation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HYMN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the bitter shame and sorrow Last Line: "none of self, and all of thee." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Praise; Religion; Theology HYMN AFTER GABRIELE ROSSETTI (FIRST VERSION), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, my love! In love's unrest Last Line: Hath not encompassed thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854) HYMN AFTER GABRIELE ROSSETTI (SECOND VERSION), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, my love! In pleasant pain Last Line: Hath not encompassed thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Religion; Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854); Theology I AM SMALL AND OF NO REPUTATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The least, if so I am Last Line: To thee the small who fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses bloom too late for me Last Line: And offered all their world to him Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Prayer; God I FOLLOWED THEE, MY GOD, I FOLLOWED THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me also bear thy cross Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Crucifixion; Worship I GAVE A SWEET SMELL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saints are like roses when they flush rarest Last Line: To-morrow blots out sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances I HAVE A MESSAGE UNTO THEE (WRITTEN IN SICKNESS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green sprout the grasses Last Line: "but ripe eternity." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Love; Seasons; Dead, The I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou that comest with a stedfast face Last Line: And I did not tremble, happy in his love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Blood; Courage; Fights I KNOW YOU NOT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ the vine with living fruit Last Line: So now he hears their cry no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ I LIFT MINE EYES TO SEE: EARTH VANISHETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I lift mine eyes to see Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death I LOOK FOR THE LORD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our wealth has wasted all away Last Line: And sweetness to the taste Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Earth; God; Heaven I LOVE YOU AND YOU KNOW IT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Loss and decay and death — and all is love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love I SEE THAT ALL THINGS COME TO AN END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more! While sun and planets fly Last Line: No more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina I WILL ARISE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and weak, -- accept my weariness Last Line: To feeble prayers; -- o lord, I will arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ I WILL COME AND HEAL HIM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord god, hear the silence of each soul Last Line: No man hath greater love than thus to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina I WILL LIFT UP MINE EYES UNTO THE HILLS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am pale with sick desire Last Line: Be with me where I am Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Soul I, LORD, THY FOOLISH SINNER LOW AND SMALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Follow thou me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sin; Judgment Day IF I HAD WORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had words, if I had words / at least to vent my misery Last Line: Or if I died I could but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The IF I SHOULD SAY MY HEART IS IN MY HOME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor to have lived nor to have died in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice IF LOVE IS NOT WORTH LOVING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If love is not worth loving, then life is not worth living Last Line: If love is not. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina IF NOT WITH HOPE OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And thy reward Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death; Heaven IF ONLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If only I might love my god and die Last Line: Yea, they shall sing for love when christ shall come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IF THOU BE DEAD, FORGIVE AND THOU SHALT LIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And be forgiven Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forgiveness IF THOU SAYEST, BEHOLD, WE KNEW IT NOT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done I know not what Last Line: In judgment pity, and in death, and now Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God IMMALEE; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gather thyme upon the sunny hills Last Line: And even the watchful hare stands not aloof. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Forests; Nature; Woods IN A CERTAIN PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found love in a certain place Last Line: Oh should I know him then? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN AN ARTIST'S STUDIO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One face looks out from all his canvasses Last Line: Not as she is, but as fills his dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Models; Paintings & Painters; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) IN JULY / NO GOODBYE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Part we must Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IN PROGRESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years ago it seemed impossible Last Line: And her eyes lightnings and her shoulders wings. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Growth; Progress IN RESURRECTION IS IT AWFULLER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One in our resurrection-songs of praise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Resurrection, The IN THE DAY OF HIS ESPOUSALS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That song of songs which is solomon's Last Line: That song of songs. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina IN THE LANE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my love came home to me Last Line: Take her home for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Love; Summer IN THE ROUND TOWER AT JHANSI, JUNE 8, 1857, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred, a thousand to one; even so Last Line: Good-bye.' -- 'good-bye.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina IN THE WILLOW SHADE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat beneath a willow tree Last Line: Beside a spring in spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring IN WEARINESS AND PAINFULNESS ST. PAUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thee our god we praise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century) INCARNATE LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love came down at christmas Last Line: Love for plea and gift and sign. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Christmastide Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The INTROSPECTIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish it were over the terrible pain Last Line: But I will not groan when I bite the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pain; Sea; Soul; Suffering; Misery; Ocean IS AND WAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was whiter than the ermine Last Line: Doing all from self-respect. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Once Subject(s): Love; Past; Pride; Women; Self-esteem; Self-respect IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying Last Line: And god the temple Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death – Children; God IS IT WELL WITH THE CHILD?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe where I cannot die yet Last Line: And to come back in blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise IT IS FINISHED', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, let me recount to thee Last Line: Thy little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Childhood IT IS NOT DEATH, O CHRIST, TO DIE FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of myrrh a bundle, and a little balm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Worship IT SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astonished heaven looked on when man was made Last Line: Astonished heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come back from the sweet south, to the north Last Line: And the sweet name to my mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips JERUSALEM OF FIRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy holiness their hire, / jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem JESSIE CAMERON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jessie, jessie cameron Last Line: Which might be hand or hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina JOHNNY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Johnny had a golden head Last Line: She sobbed as if her heart must break. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): French Revolution (1789) JOY IS BUT SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For fair thou art as moonrise after rain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Joy; Grief; Pain JOY OF SAINTS, LIKE INCENSE TURNED FIRE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina JUDGE NOT ACCORDING TO THE APPEARANCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, purge our eyes to see Last Line: And hear it, 'fear not: it is I.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love understands the mystery Last Line: Love understands the mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, cuckoo, come Last Line: To my mind to live in. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Summer Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this that name as ointment poured forth Last Line: Man's life and resurrection from the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ L.E.L., by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Downstairs I laugh, I sport and jest with all Last Line: When new spring builds new heaven and clean new earth.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Landon, Leitia Elizabeth (1801-1838) LADY ISABELLA (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart warm as summer, fresh as spring Last Line: And these had lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Seasons; Women LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away Last Line: We too may pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LAST NIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where were you last night? I watched at the gate Last Line: As to miss the chance while we weigh and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hate; Love; Night; Spring; Bedtime LAST PRAYER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the beginning thou hast foreknown the end Last Line: O lord all-merciful, be merciful to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer LAST RITES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10 Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the mountains were brought forth Last Line: Our very selves his praise thro' endless days. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground Last Line: Contented and desirous to the nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Vision; Eden LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lifelong our stumbles, lifelong our regret Last Line: Mounting to him in love's perpetual fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Regret LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream there is wherein we are fain to scream Last Line: On feet untired, and still on feet tho' tired. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shame is a shadow cast by sin: yet shame Last Line: Man to himself, -- then sets him up on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Shame LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When adam and when eve left paradise Last Line: Thee and thy realm of change and death and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 15, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let woman fear to teach and bear to learn Last Line: His frailer self, and saves without her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Women LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 16, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our teachers teach that one and one make two Last Line: And how about these long still-lengthening days? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 17, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something this foggy day, a something which Last Line: Thus with myself: how fares it, friends, with you? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 18, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So late in autumn half the world's asleep Last Line: Like summer, rouse one day the slumbering sense? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 19, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here now is winter. Winter, after all Last Line: Against that day when spring sets all to rights. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rend hearts and rend not garments for our sins Last Line: Blind-eyed, deaf-eared, and choked with failing breath? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 20, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred thousand birds salute the day Last Line: And launch our hearts up with them to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 21, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A host of things I take on trust: I take Last Line: For june that night glowed like a doubled june. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 22, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains in their overwhelming might Last Line: Tho' not one flower had bloomed to weave its crown? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 23, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the seas we know, stretch seas unknown Last Line: And still we peer beyond with craving face. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 24, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wise do send their hearts before them to Last Line: Oh fool among the foolish, in thy quest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 25, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we consider what this life we lead Last Line: To hold in lieu of all so poor a part? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 26, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life is full of numbness and of balk Last Line: Unveil thy face, o death who art not death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 27, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have dreamed of death: -- what will it be to die Last Line: May miss the goal at last, may miss a crown. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Death LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 28, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In life our absent friend is far away Last Line: Brimful of love for you and love for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst make and knowest whereof we are made Last Line: Thou who didst die our death and fill our grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Later Life: A Double Sonnet Of Sonnets: 3 LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So tired am I, so weary of today Last Line: Even me, o lord my lord, remember me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou thyself art love and only thou Last Line: And charm the willing heart from out my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack Last Line: And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To love and to remember; that is good Last Line: Can satisfy all hearts, -- yea, thine and mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We feel and see with different hearts and eyes Last Line: And hearts to love thee, and to see thee eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Star sirius and the pole star dwell afar Last Line: Mayhap they talk together without speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Stars LAUGHING LIFE CRIES AT THE FEAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come with me, for I am best Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Transience LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Treasure plies a feather Last Line: And are heavenly things. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pleasure; Treasures; Heaven LEAF FROM LEAF CHRIST KNOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To thee all spirits and all dust Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is good to be last not first Last Line: So it leads us to easter day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lent LET EVERYTHING THAT HATH BREATH PRAISE THE LORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that we see rejoices in the sunshine Last Line: God's praises evermore for everything. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can man rejoice who lives in hourly fear Last Line: Perfect his patience in the love of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Patience; Worship LET PATIENCE HAVE HER PERFECT WORK', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a bird alone Last Line: Answer: yea, come, lord jesus, come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Solitude; Eternity; Time; Patience LET THEM REJOICE IN THEIR BEDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson as the rubies, crimson as the roses Last Line: O lord god, the three in one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LET THEM REJOICE IN THEIR BEDS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds sing to us where we lie Last Line: In the harvest-land of love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Death LIFE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is not sweet. One day it will be sweet Last Line: Asleep from risk, asleep from pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life LIFE HIDDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roses and lilies grow above the place Last Line: Her spirit is at peace where angels kneel. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Peace LIFE OUT OF DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I've said all I would, mother Last Line: "heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LIFE THAT WAS BORN TODAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy blessed face to see Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Mortality; Heaven LIFT UP THINE EYES TO SEEK THE INVISIBLE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Golden jerusalem floats full in view Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Faith; Saints LIGHT LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh sad thy lot before I came Last Line: But hard, to heaven: 'dost thou forget?' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LIGHT OF LIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ our light, whom even in darkness we Last Line: Earth reels, but he has stored his store above. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LIKE AS THE HEART DESIRETH THE WATER BROOKS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is yearning Last Line: Ever old, ever new. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LINES GIVEN WITH A PENWIPER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have compassion on the carpeting Last Line: And save your spine from a continual curve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Compassion; Pain; Suffering; Misery LINES TO MY GRANDFATHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear grandpapa, -- to be obedient Last Line: Affectionate granddaughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LISTEN, AND I WILL TELL YOU OF A FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And dream on, not at rest, and yet believing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces LISTENING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She listened like a cushat dove Last Line: To hear him speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Doves; Love LITTLE ONE WEARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crying, my little one, footsore and weary Last Line: Dreaming of pretty things, dreaming of pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 19 Subject(s): Babies; Infants LONG BARREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who didst hang upon a barren tree Last Line: Feed thou my feeble shoots. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LONG LOOKED FOR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye hardly sees Last Line: And even I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Love; Peace; Sleep LOOK ON THE PICTURE AND ON THIS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we once were wedded, - then I must be true Last Line: Will she sound our accusation in intolerable light Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love – Nature Of; Portraits; Memory; Death LOOKING BACK ALONG LIFE'S TRODDEN WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Past LOOKING FORWARD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, let me sleep, for I am sick of care Last Line: Barren through life, but in death bearing fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LORD GOD OF HOSTS, MOST HOLY AND MOST HIGH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My love of thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Worship LORD I AM HERE. - BUT, CHILD, I LOOK FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I bring thee to the haven where thou wouldst be Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; God; Seeking; Salvation LORD THOMAS AND FAIR MARGARET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair margaret sat in her bower Last Line: And were joined in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ghosts; Love; Murder; Supernatural LORD, BY WHAT INCONCEIVABLE DIM ROAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At rest from labour on the sabbath day Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims LORD, DOST THOU LOOK ON ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And give me love that I may give thee love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Love LORD, GIVE ME LOVE THAT I MAY LOVE THEE MUCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Endless, all love, no sorrow, but a song Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Love LORD, GRANT ME GRACE TO LOVE THEE IN MY PAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What I forewent wilt thou not grant me then? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Love LORD, GRANT US CALM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth thee Last Line: Or vanish like a smoke to set forth thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LORD, GRANT US GRACE TO REST UPON THY WORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, grant us grace Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Rest LORD, HAST THOU SO LOVED US, AND WILL NOT WE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy heart caressed Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Love LORD, I AM FEEBLE AND OF MEAN ACCOUNT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of aught beside wherein to sink or mount Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; God; Weakness LORD, IT IS GOOD FOR US TO BE HERE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant us, o lord, that patience and that faith Last Line: God's will, but saith, good is it to be here. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LORD, JESU, THOU ART SWEETNESS TO MY SOUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O sweet jesu Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ LORD, MAKE ME ONE WITH THINE OWN FAITHFUL ONES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which clouds shall never cloud for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints LORD, MAKE ME PURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lord, keep me so Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Virtue LORD, SAVE US, WE PERISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, seek us, o lord, find us Last Line: Round us, everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Religion; Theology LORD, WE ARE RIVERS RUNNING TO THY SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sweetness to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rivers; Worship; God LORD, WHAT HAVE I THAT I MAY OFFER THEE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Such as I have now give I thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Gifts & Giving LORD, WHAT HAVE I TO OFFER? SICKENING FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only sift out my sin Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Judgment Day; Sin; Prayer LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is all happiness, love is all beauty Last Line: And kindles endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark's on the water; come down, come down Last Line: In the sea they have found a common grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LOVE AND HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love for ever dwells in heaven Last Line: For perfect love, and perfect bliss, shall be our lot on high. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism LOVE ATTACKED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is more sweet than flowers Last Line: Indifference. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Love; World LOVE DEFENDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who extols a wilderness Last Line: Great is its relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Heaven; Love; Pain; World; Paradise; Suffering; Misery LOVE EPHEMERAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is sweet, and so are flowers Last Line: Love endures but for a day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Sea; Ocean LOVE FROM THE NORTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a love in soft south land Last Line: Nor will nor wish to say him nay. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As flames that consume the mountains, as winds that coerce the sea Last Line: In whom their death is life, their silence utters a song. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina LOVE IS STRONG AS [OR STRONGER THAN] DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not sought thee, I have not found thee Last Line: And clasp thee to me.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology LOVE LIES BLEEDING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love that is dead and buried, yesterday Last Line: Was this to meet? Not so, we have not met. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Collinson, James (1825-1881); Love - Loss Of LOVE LOVETH THEE, AND WISDOM LOVETH THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wisdom, rest, love—and lo! The whole is love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wisdom; God; Love; Worship LOVE'S NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath a name of death Last Line: And fade away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE, TO BE LOVE, MUST WALK THY WAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But all is good? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Conduct Of Life; Religion LULLABY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lullaby, oh, lullaby! Last Line: Lullaby, oh, lullaby! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 125 LUSCIOUS AND SORROWFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow Last Line: Salt sea-shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MAGGIE A LADY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must not call me maggie Last Line: Till I nigh wish myself a child with you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MAIDEN MAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden may sat in her bower Last Line: For her nest and young ones in it. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses MAIDEN SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago and long ago Last Line: Long ago and long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MAN'S LIFE IS BUT A WORKING DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And all things lovely on the morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life MARCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I blow an arouse Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MARGERY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we do with margery Last Line: Uncomforted to tears and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MARIANA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for me marring or making Last Line: You my love whom I love and die for? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MARTYRS' SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We meet in joy, though we part in sorrow Last Line: God almighty, god alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Martyrs MARVEL OF MARVELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marvel of marvels, if I myself shall behold Last Line: Cold it is, o my king, how cold alone on the wold! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MARY MAGDALENE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came in deep repentance Last Line: Loved much, and was forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MARY MAGDALENE AND THE OTHER MARY; A SONG FOR ALL MARIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our master lies asleep and is at rest Last Line: Our master lies asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Mary Magdalen; Women - Bible; Mary Magdalene MAUDE CLARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the church she followed them Last Line: Me best of all, maude clare.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAUNDY THURSDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great vine left its glory to reign as forest king Last Line: I a king, and thou a king, and this king to be our king. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Holy Week; Maundy Thursday MAY (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell you how it was Last Line: And left me old, and cold, and grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): May (month) MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The ME AND MY GIFT: KIND LORD, BEHOLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Me and my gift Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Gifts & Giving MEETING (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we shall live, we live Last Line: Never to part more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love MEETING (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said goodbye in hope Last Line: But it is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism MEMENTO MORI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor the pleasure Last Line: What ends to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I nursed it in my bosom while it lived Last Line: Grows old in which I grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory MEMORY: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a room whereinto no one enters Last Line: When we're together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory MICHAEL F.M. ROSSETTI (APRIL 22, 1881 - JANUARY 24, 1883), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A holy innocent gone home Last Line: On heavenly banks. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Heaven; Spring; Time; Death - Babies; Paradise MID-LENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is any grieved or tired? Yea, by god's will Last Line: Still faint yet still pursuing, o thou saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lent MIRAGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hope I dreamed of was a dream Last Line: From a dream's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Mirages MIRRORS OF LIFE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mystery of life, the mystery Last Line: All waiting for the long-awaited light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MOLE AND EARTHWORM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A handy mole, who plied no shovel Last Line: Annulled them all without distinction. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Handy Mole MONDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I ached for thy dear sake Last Line: And wilt thou have nought of me? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holy Week MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back to me, who wait and watch for you Last Line: When life was sweet because you call'd them sweet? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time flies, hope flags, life plies a wearied wing Last Line: Loss and decay and death, and all is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many in aftertimes will say of you Last Line: My love of you was life and not a breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be any one can take my place Last Line: And you companion'd I am not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Abnegation Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could trust mine own self with your fate Last Line: Whose love your love's capacity can fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Trust Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Religion; Women - Heroes; Theology MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth gone, and beauty gone if ever there Last Line: Silence of love that cannot sing again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could remember that first day Last Line: First touch of hand in hand -- did one but know! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The First Meeting;the First Day Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of you, to wake: would that I might Last Line: Though there be nothing new beneath the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved you first: but afterwards your love Last Line: Both of us, of the love which makes us one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my heart's heart and you who are to me Last Line: Since woman is the helpmeet made for man. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke Last Line: I cannot love him if I love not you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me, for I love you -- and answer me Last Line: And death be strong, yet love is strong as death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, if I perish, perish' -- esther spake Last Line: And for love's sake by love be granted it! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking of you, and all that was, and all Last Line: Ready to spend and be spent for your sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Heroes MOONSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair the sun riseth Last Line: To another land. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MOTHER AND CHILD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou thinking of,' said the mother Last Line: "my mother, wouldst not thou?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Children; Heaven; Mothers; Childhood; Paradise MOTHER COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what is that country Last Line: Seemed it short or long. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ MR. AND MRS. SCOTT, AND I, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rough-coated sun-burnt oranges Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Picnics MY BELOVED ONES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina MY DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep MY DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now a curious dream I dreamed last night Last Line: And tell it as I saw it on the spot Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep MY FRIEND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two days ago with dancing glancing hair Last Line: To-morrow follow so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship MY GOD, WILT THOU ACCEPT, AND WILL NOT WE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Gratuitous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Gifts & Giving MY MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A venus seems my mouse Last Line: Keep house. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Memory; Mice; Sea; Ocean NEW CREATURES; THE CREATOR STILL THE SAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our king of old and still our self-same king Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ NEW YEAR DITTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year met me somewhat sad Last Line: My rugged way to heaven, please god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NEXT OF KIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows gather round me, while you are in the sun Last Line: Yea, we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Home; Dead, The NIGHT AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sunlit hours are o'er Last Line: Death is life, and death alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime NO, THANK YOU, JOHN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never said I loved you, john Last Line: No, thank you, john Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courtship; Rejection NOBLE SISTERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now did you mark a falcon Last Line: My curse go forth with you.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina NONE OTHER LAMB, NONE OTHER NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor home, but thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ NONE WITH HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, to live: how didst thou bear to live Last Line: Thy spirit saith Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Jesus Christ NOT YOURS BUT YOU', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died for me: what can I offer him? Last Line: As thou hast loved me even to bitter death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ – Suffering & Sacrifice NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love said nay, while hope kept saying Last Line: Love said nay. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept Last Line: In sevenfold day of days Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love NUN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is as a freeborn bird Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nuns O CHRIST MY GOD WHO SEEST THE UNSEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remember all my hope, remember me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ O CHRIST OUR ALL IN EACH, OUR ALL IN ALL!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And if thou hold me fast, yet cleave to thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ O DEATH WHERE IS THY STING?'; A FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleepeth: would ye wake her if ye could? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem; Death; Heaven O FOOLISH SOUL! TO MAKE THY COUNT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Save thee, o foolish soul Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Forgiveness; Jesus Christ O GLORIOUS SEA THAT IN EACH CLIMBING WAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou sayest to men: go back & come not hither Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Storms; Ships & Shipping O LORD, I AM ASHAMED TO SEEK THY FACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy mercy's all-amazing monument Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Repentance; Shame O LORD, ON WHOM WE GAZE AND DARE NOT GAZE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We hand in hand with thee and heart in heart Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Faith O LORD, WHEN THOU DIDST CALL ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yea, I knew Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Judgment Day O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fallen star! A darkened light Last Line: O fallen star! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub O MINE ENEMY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On thy throne Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Enemies; Heaven O YE WHO LOVE TODAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then to her sun gives place Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Patience O YE, WHO ARE NOT DEAD AND FIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With love, and cast their lot with you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love OCTOBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've brought you nuts and hops Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina OF EACH SAD WORD WHICH IS MORE SORROWFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of each sad word Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief OF HIM THAT WAS READY TO PERISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I am waiting, weeping, watching for thee Last Line: For the glory of thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ OF MY LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weary of my life Last Line: If I might die! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The OH KNELL OF A PASSING TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Numbered to pass away Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Transience OH THOU WHO TELL'ST ME THAT ALL HOPE IS OVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stagnate the streams of life that should meander Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope ON ALBINA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roses lingered in her cheeks Last Line: That fair albina painted? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cosmetics ON KEATS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A garden in a garden: a green spot Last Line: Shall be a fountain of love, verily. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets ON THE DEATH OF A CAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall tell the lady's grief? Last Line: Nor disturb her narrow bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE NOTE YOU DO NOT SEND ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Home is near: not new of you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence ON THE WING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you Last Line: Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ONCE FOR ALL (MARGARET), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said: this is a beautiful fresh rose Last Line: Winter nips once for all; love is but one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ONE CERTAINTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity of vanities, the preacher saith Last Line: And morning shall be cold and twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity ONE DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will tell you when they met Last Line: And they shall answer 'yea.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ONE FOOT ON SEA, AND ONE FOOT ON SHORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh tell me once and tell me twice Last Line: Your breaking heart breaks mine again.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina ONE OF THE DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paler, not quite so fair as in her life Last Line: Friends, she but slumbers, wherefore do ye weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ONE OF THE SOLDIERS WITH A SPEAR PIERCED HIS SIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah lord, we all have pierced thee Last Line: Let mercy overrun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice ONE SEA-SIDE GRAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of the roses Last Line: But one remembers yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose which spied one swallow Last Line: But that rose never more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter; Spring ONE WOE IS PAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One woe is past Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Persistence ONLY BELIEVE;' FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by weeping Last Line: To plenty from the land of drouth Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Death OUR CHURCH PALMS ARE BUDDING YELLOW TWIGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While christ lay dead the widowed world Last Line: And love remembered mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection OUR HEAVEN MUST BE WITHIN OURSELVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And these are love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Self; Hope; Faith OUR LIFE IS LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is long. Not so, wise angels say Last Line: That where thou art, there thy beloved might be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina OUR MOTHERS, LOVELY WOMEN PITIFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whether or not you bear to look on me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mothers; Sisters OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUT OF THE DEEP', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have mercy, thou my god-mercy my god Last Line: Lord, I repent; help thou my helpless loss Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Weariness; Mercy; God PAIN OR JOY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! That's the nightingale Last Line: Throbs in each throbbing vein? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Happiness; Nightingales; Pain; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery PALM SUNDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift mine eyes, and see Last Line: Trust me in love, trust on, love on, and pray.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Palm Sunday PARADISE: IN A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dream I saw the flowers Last Line: And with my god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had fortune parted us Last Line: For thee beloved. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Anger; Fortune; God; Love PARTING AFTER PARTING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Never to part more Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Reunions; Togetherness PASSING AND GLASSING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things that pass Last Line: And that which shall be was. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina PASSING AWAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away, saith the world, passing away Last Line: Then I answered: yea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Change; Time; Transience; Impermanence PASSIONTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the greatness of thy love, dear Last Line: Lord, pass not by -- I come -- and I -- and I. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina PASTIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boat amid the ripples, drifting, rocking Last Line: Lit aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina PATIENCE MUST DWELL WITH LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love only will be near Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Grief; Patience PATIENCE OF HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers that bloom in sun and shade Last Line: We trust to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tumult and turmoil, trouble and toil Last Line: Wrap me up in thy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, give me blessed fear Last Line: And fetch thee home thy dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina PITIA A DAMONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah non chiamarlo pena Last Line: Terribile non e Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pity PLEADING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, I cannot plead my love of thee Last Line: The shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Cannot Plead Subject(s): God; Love; Sea; Ocean PORTRAITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An easy lazy length of limb Last Line: And cherished both in mine, good night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman Last Line: And leads to endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness PRAYER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, grant us eyes to see, and ears to hear Last Line: And thou thyself, lord christ, for corner stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Lord, Grant Us Eyes Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed PRAYING ALWAYS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After midnight, in the dark Last Line: O brothers and o sisters? Pause and pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life that we should love it Last Line: Ever glowing more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PROMISES LIKE A PIE-CRUST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Promise me no promises, / so I will not promise you Last Line: Who would perish of excess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Freedom; Friendship; Liberty QUEEN ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jessamine shows like a star Last Line: The rose, the perfect rose be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses QUINQUAGESIMA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is alone the worthly law of love Last Line: For one to know who is fain to love and learn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Nature Of REDEEMING THE TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A life of hope deferred too often is Last Line: When also thou shalt keep thy harvest home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina REJOICE WITH ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little lamb, who lost thee Last Line: Draw thee nigher.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am gone away Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REPINING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat alway through the long day Last Line: "forgive me, for the sake of love." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O earth, lie heavily upon her eyes Last Line: And when she wakes she will not think it long. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina RESURGAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From depth to height, from height to loftier height Last Line: But the returning sun will find him there. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina RESURRECTION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He resteth: weep not Last Line: That he inherits. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology RIDDLE (APPLE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First it was a pretty flower, dressed in pink and white Last Line: It will make a splendid pie for your thanksgiving spread Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina RIVALS.' A SHADOW OF SAINT DOROTHEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Golden haired, lily white Last Line: And gather palm branches Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Heaven ROGATIONTIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who scatters tares shall reap no wheat Last Line: Tho' man weary himself to find the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Ascension Day; Rogation Days ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSES BLUSHING RED AND WHITE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers ROSES ON A BRIER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Where shall be no more sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sea SAINTS AND ANGELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's oh in paradise that I fain would be Last Line: And paradise hath room for you and me and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Jesus Christ; Paradise SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SCARCE TOLERABLE LIFE, WHICH ALL LIFE LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nature; Walking; Desire SCARLET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Last Line: Bethink thee: today must end; there is no end of tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SE FOSSI ANDATA A HASTINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ti do l'addio Last Line: Idee bislunghe Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SEA SWEPT IN WITH MOAN AND FOAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea SEASONS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spring time when the leaves are young Last Line: And starved the snow he shines upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer SEASONS (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crocuses and snow drops wither Last Line: Till spring and sunlight dawn again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Seasons SEASONS (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the cheerful budding-time Last Line: And all hope of life seems lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Nature; Seasons; World SEEKING REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother said: the child is changed Last Line: And think and weep alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Pain; Rest; Seasons; Suffering; Misery SEND ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use me, god, in thy great harvest field Last Line: So that the work it holds be only done Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Religion SERENADE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, wander forth with me: the orange flowers Last Line: Come, wander forth with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SEVEN VIALS HOLD THY WRATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Behold its shadow in the deed he did Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Anger; Worship; Prayer SEXAGESIMA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet earth was very good in days of old Last Line: Earth shall be very good. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SHADOWS TO-DAY, WHILE SHADOWS SHOW GOD'S WILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In darkness for the city luminous Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Darkness; Shadows; God SHALL I FORGET?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I forget on this side of the grave? Last Line: (o my soul, lead the way he walks with me.) Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SHALL NOT THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH DO RIGHT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Remember, lord, and do Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Judgment Day SHE CAME FROM THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The half was not told me, said sheba's queen Last Line: The half was not told.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SHE SHALL BE BROUGHT UNTO THE KING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's daughter is all glorious within Last Line: The king's daughter is. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem SHORT IS TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short is time, and only time is bleak Last Line: Short is time. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time SHUT OUT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The door was shut. I looked between Last Line: And dear they are, but not so dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angels at the foot Last Line: My pretty babe in bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Watching Angels SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 101, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little husband Last Line: Were light of limb. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 102, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear old woman in the lane Last Line: And wheel her chair round, if we may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Neighboring Subject(s): Old Age; Women SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 103, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swift and sure the swallow Last Line: Swift and sure may fail. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 104, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt I caught a little owl Last Line: Bloomed beneath the sun.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does the bee do? Last Line: Eat up the honey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): What Do They Do? Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 106, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a poll parrot Last Line: Trembled for the doll. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dolls; Toys SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 107, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house of cards Last Line: That's the fun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Card Games; Playing Cards SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 108, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose with such a bonny blush Last Line: What's in the sun to flush about? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 109, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose that blushes rosy red Last Line: She may stand upright. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 11, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dug and dug amongst the snow Last Line: Will rear no blossom from the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 110, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh fair to see Last Line: Oh fair to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cherry Trees SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 111, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clever little willie wee Last Line: With sister margery. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 112, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peach tree on the southern wall Last Line: For grandmamma with her tea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fruit; Peaches SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 113, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose has thorns as well as honey Last Line: For the day when I make merry. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holly SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 114, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the moon tired? She looks so pale Last Line: She fades away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 115, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If stars dropped out of heaven Last Line: Beyond the cloudy bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Stars SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 116, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good-by in fear, good-by in sorrow Last Line: "never to part again." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 117, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sun could tell us half Last Line: Birds that cannot fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cruelty SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 118, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the moon came from heaven Last Line: And do not peep by day!' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 119, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady moon, your horns point toward the east Last Line: Wane, be at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Phases Of The Moon;lady Moon Subject(s): Moon SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A city plum is not a plum Last Line: A captain's log is not a log. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A City Plum SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 120, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do the stars do Last Line: And do its maker's will. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Stars SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 121, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motherless baby and babyless mother Last Line: Bring them together to love one another. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adoption; Childlessness SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 122, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson curtains round my mother's bed Last Line: For I am but a baby. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 123, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby lies so fast asleep Last Line: Kiss her once and leave her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 124, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a baby, such a baby Last Line: And oh the sleepy eyes that wink! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 126, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie a-bed Last Line: Baby, sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 13, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your brother has a falcon Last Line: My least little one. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 14, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear what the mournful linnets say Last Line: Too late to build, too sad to sing.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desolation; Linnets SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 16, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hop-o'-my-thumb and little jack horner Last Line: I never caught him growling and biting. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 18, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, why do you never rest Last Line: From the dim north bringing snow? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 20, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Growing in the vale Last Line: Sweet daffadowndilly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): "growing In The Vale""; Subject(s): Daffodils SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 21, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A linnet in a gilded cage Last Line: Oh who could doubt it now? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Linnets SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 22, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrens and robins in the hedge Last Line: Everywhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Nesting-time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 23, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby has a mottled fist Last Line: For he's the very thing for kisses. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Baby Subject(s): Babies; Infants SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 24, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did baby die? Last Line: But bow and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 25, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all were rain and never sun Last Line: There'd be no rainbow still. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sun And Rain SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 26, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, where have you been? Last Line: Make the turf so sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Violets In Spring Subject(s): Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 27, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brownie, brownie, let down your milk Last Line: No sweeter scented than your breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 28, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the grassy banks Last Line: Watch by them and bleat. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Lambkins;lambs At Play Subject(s): Lambs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 29, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rushes in a watery place Last Line: Ripe fruit to follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My baby has a father and a mother Last Line: Poor little baby! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnie and mattie Last Line: And fat little may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 31, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsease in my garden bed Last Line: And the honey-trumpets fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Heartsease SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 32, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were a queen Last Line: For I'd marry you.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 33, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow Last Line: What are deep? The ocean and truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 34, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire Last Line: Strike a flint, and forthwith flash out sparks of fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 35, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is but one may in the year Last Line: Bring up the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): May (month) SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 36, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer nights are short Last Line: Trill out their song. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 37, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days are clear Last Line: And june! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): June; Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 38, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twist me a crown of windflowers Last Line: And to-night they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 39, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown and furry Last Line: To live again a butterfly. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Caterpillar Subject(s): Caterpillars; Insects; Bugs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our little baby fell asleep Last Line: And kiss mamma again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 40, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A toadstool comes up in a night Last Line: But then it is an oak. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Oak;a Lesson Subject(s): Toadstools SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 41, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pocket-handkerchief to hem Last Line: And after work is play! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Stitching Subject(s): Sewing; Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 42, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a pig wore a wig Last Line: To get one new. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 43, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seldom 'can't' Last Line: Never 'won't.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Good Advice SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 44, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1 and 1 are 2 Last Line: Pretty pictures, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 45, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many seconds in a minute? Last Line: No one knows the rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): How Many Seconds? Subject(s): Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 46, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will you give me for my pound? Last Line: Four farthings, just so many. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 47, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: January cold desolate Last Line: In bleak december. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Months Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; Nativity, The SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 48, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is pink? A rose is pink Last Line: Just an orange! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Color;what Is Pink? Subject(s): Colors SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 49, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother shake the cherry-tree Last Line: Knocking at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Let's Be Merry SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kookoorookoo! Kookoorookoo! / crows the cock before the morn Last Line: The day, the day, the day is springing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 50, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pin has a head, but has no hair Last Line: And baby crows, without being a cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Pin Subject(s): Language; Nonsense; Words; Vocabulary SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 51, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hopping frog, hop here and be seen Last Line: You won't hurt me, and I won't hurt you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Frog And Toad Subject(s): Animals; Frogs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 52, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are Last Line: Out of a sky of green. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Daisies Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 54, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does the donkey bray about Last Line: What do the others say? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three plum buns Last Line: To scare sheep from the clover. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Snack SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 56, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A motherless soft lambkin Last Line: Until he's strong and bold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lambs SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 57, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dancing on the hill-tops Last Line: Happy little alice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Alice SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 58, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fishes set umbrellas up Last Line: To shade them from the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 59, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The peacock has a score of eyes Last Line: Nor foxglove fit the fox. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Peacock SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baby cry Last Line: Baby gulp it up. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 60, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pussy has a whiskered face Last Line: And has a heart to love us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Four Pets Subject(s): Animals; Cats SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 61, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog lies in his kennel Last Line: And baby kiss me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 62, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hope grew on a bush Last Line: Fading together? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If Hope SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 63, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I planted a hand Last Line: And earth sighed forlorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 64, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the ivy bush Last Line: Lie down a-dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 65, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a king Last Line: Makes bows at my gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 66, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is one that has a head without an eye Last Line: Half the answer hangs upon a thread! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Riddle SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 67, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a mouse could fly Last Line: What would he find to say? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If A Mouse SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 68, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing me a song Last Line: Ding dong bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Sisters SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 69, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily has an air Last Line: When she blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Rose (3) Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight o'clock / the postman's knock Last Line: And three for dear mamma. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Postman Subject(s): Postal Service; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 70, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret has a milking-pail Last Line: By the leafy limes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 71, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the meadow - what in the meadow? Last Line: In the garden. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 72, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A frisky lamb Last Line: And the lanes half shadow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 73, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mix a pancake Last Line: Catch it if you can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Pancake SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 74, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has such a rainy sound Last Line: In the windy sea? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Wind;the Sound Of The Wind Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 75, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three little children Last Line: With guardian angels. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Orphans; Foundlings SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 76, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away, fly away over the sea Last Line: Bringing the summer and bringing the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Fly Away, Swallow;the Swallow SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 77, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnie bakes oaten cakes Last Line: Says she. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 78, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white hen sitting Last Line: Squat safe as safe can be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 79, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Currants on a bush Last Line: And ned to gather them. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bread and milk for breakfast Last Line: On the cold days of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 80, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing at bob cherry Last Line: With the cherry tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 81, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have but one rose in the world Last Line: There'll be but thorns for stooping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 82, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rosy maiden winifred Last Line: All is well.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 83, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blind from my birth Last Line: Where all joy-bells are ringing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Blindness; Happiness; Larks; Visually Handicapped; Joy; Delight; Skylarks SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 84, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cows come home the milk is coming Last Line: Winks his nose and sits all sunny. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Milking Time SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 86, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ding a ding Last Line: For a funeral. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 87, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A ring upon her finger Last Line: At her side. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 89, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a mounting skylark sings Last Line: Only that heaven is heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Skylark And Nightingale Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 9, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's snow on the fields Last Line: Out in the cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 90, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen the wind? Last Line: The wind is passing by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Has Seen The Wind;the Wind Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Wind; Theology SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 91, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses of the sea Last Line: Toss and turn over. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Sea Horses SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 92, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sailor, come ashore Last Line: In the stormy sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Coral SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 93, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A diamond or a coal Last Line: What time the waters freeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Diamonds SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 94, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An emerald is as green as grass Last Line: But a flint holds fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Jewels;precious Stones;a Flint Subject(s): Usefullness SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 95, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boats sail on the rivers Last Line: Is prettier far than these. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Rainbow Subject(s): Clouds SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 96, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lily has a smooth stalk Last Line: She sets the world on fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Rose SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 97, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurt no living thing Last Line: Nor harmless worms that creep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Environment; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 98, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a little ladybird Last Line: And cannot change to grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 99, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the bells were ringing Last Line: And all the birds are singing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Broken Doll SIR EUSTACE GREY (SEE CRABBE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, oh lay me low Last Line: Death is immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Death; Fear; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SIR WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir winter is coming across the wide sea Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Sea; Singing & Singers; Winter; Ocean SISTER MAUDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who told my mother of my shame Last Line: Bide you with death and sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SIT DOWN IN THE LOWEST ROOM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, give me grace Last Line: Sit low, it aims awry to go up higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SLAIN FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slain for man, slain for me Last Line: O lamb of god, slain for man, slain for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ SLAIN IN THEIR HIGH PLACES: FALLEN ON REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Slain in their high places Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Altars; Worship SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP, SLEEP HAPPY CHILD.' - BLAKE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, happy one Last Line: Of another advent dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death – Children; Peace; Heaven SLEEPING AT LAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over Last Line: Sleeping at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of the saints I have known Last Line: Of the saint of saints, the king of kings, the lamb on the throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SO I BEGAN MY WALK OF LIFE; NO STOP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of spirits reach me: is it so with you? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life SOEUR LOUISE DE LA MISERICORDE (1674), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have desired, and I have been desired Last Line: Oh vanity of vanities, desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Desire SOMEWHERE OR OTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere or other there must surely be / the face not seen, the voice not heard Last Line: Fallen on a turf grown green. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SON, REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid beside thy gate am lazarus Last Line: Thirst in an unextinguishable fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SONG (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what comes over the sea Last Line: And sail it slow or fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Ocean SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh roses for the flush of youth Last Line: Before in the old time. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Flowers; Youth SONG (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her among the flower Last Line: Fair, with the selfsame smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Funerals; Grief; Tears; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (4), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her; she was lovely Last Line: And hailed the coming day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Marriage; Pain; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Suffering; Misery SONG (5), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat and sang alway Last Line: Her songs died on the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (6), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not for her even brow Last Line: Whose love makes many hearts rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares SONG (7), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved you for long long years ellen Last Line: Tho' you will not love me yet? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The SONG (8), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stream moaneth as it floweth Last Line: Lulling us from many woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brooks; Earth; Rain; Seasons; Streams; Creeks; World SONG (9), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two doves upon the selfsame branch Last Line: And never give a thought to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Doves; Happiness; Joy; Delight SONGS IN A CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song in a cornfield Last Line: Beat his breast, and call. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say that love and joy are one: and so Last Line: Though burning for a martyr's diadem. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONNET (FROM THE PSALMS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the livelong night I lay awake Last Line: Witness that such a quietness is best. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer; Silence; Tears SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the shade of a deserted hall Last Line: And here her bridal garlands were unbound. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Ruin Subject(s): Home; Past; Ruins SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10A, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would that I were a turnip white Last Line: With deep-cut scolloped edges and a rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Writing & Writers SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10B, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fancy the good fairies dressed in white Last Line: Yet letting the white peep beyond the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Autumn; Fairies; Flowers; Life; Seasons; Fall; Elves SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10C. VANITY FAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies dress in muslin full and white Last Line: Go to the bason, poke them o'er the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women; Youth SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit among green shady valleys oft Last Line: What time the trees weep o'er me honeydew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 4, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said within myself: I am a fool Last Line: Die if thou wilt; but what hast thou to fear? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Life; Memory; Soul SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek among the living, and I seek Last Line: Weep for a little ere we go & play. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 6, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah welladay and wherefore am I here? Last Line: Thankful if one would take her by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dawn; Hearts; Hope; Thought; Sunrise; Optimism; Thinking SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 7, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is this august weather? Nay, not so Last Line: Cheer up there can be nothing worse to mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): August; Rain; Weather SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun Last Line: And I shall sorrow that I must forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 9. THE PLAGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, the last stroke of death's noon has struck Last Line: Who mourneth for the multitude dead here? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Plague; Dead, The SOONER OR LATER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sooner or later: yet at last Last Line: Show mercy on us then. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SORROW HATH A DOUBLE VOICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Farewell to sorrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pleasure; Grief SOUND SLEEP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are laughing, some are weeping Last Line: To her soul at rest and shriven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPEECHLESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou art fulness, I am emptiness Last Line: Extolling thine unuttered loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts SPRING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frost-locked all the winter Last Line: Hastening to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring SPRING FANCIES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it's weary work to live, / it will rest us to lie dead Last Line: For all the sap of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Spring SPRING QUIET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone were but the winter Last Line: "though far off it be." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 1 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I listen to the holy antheming Last Line: Can rule thy stubborn feelings or can teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Churches; Hearts; Love; Saints; Cathedrals ST. BARNABAS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Barnabas, with john his sister's son Last Line: Neared it and passed; -- not there his landing-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Barnabas, Saint (1st Century); Cyprus; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus ST. BARTHOLOMEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bore an agony whereof the name Last Line: Hath made his fellows quail. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bartholomew, Saint (1st Century); Saints ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When if ever life is sweet Last Line: For her light, her love, her king. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hungary; Life; Religion; Saints; Theology ST. JOHN, APOSTLE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth cannot bar flame from ascending Last Line: That we in thee may abide together. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): John The Apostle, Saint (1st Century) ST. MARK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once like a broken bow mark sprang aside Last Line: And bids them come up higher. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mark, Saint (c. 46 A.d.) ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Service and strength, god's angels and archangels Last Line: With all his creatures. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Michael, Saint ST. PETER (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Peter once: 'lord, dost thou wash my feet?' Last Line: And sup with thee in glory by and by.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) ST. PETER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Launch out into the deep, christ spake of old Last Line: Unique, near thee, to love thee human-eyed? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Peter, Saint (c. 64 A.d.) STANDING AFAR OFF FOR THE FEAR OF HER TORMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the end? Is there no end but this Last Line: In solitude of fire she sits alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina STRANGE VOICES SING AMONG THE PLANETS WHICH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And our own shadow hides light with a mask? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Voices SUBJECT TO LIKE PASSIONS WE ARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoso hath anguish is not dead in sin Last Line: And love, adore, rejoice, with all their might. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SUMMER (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the song of greeting Last Line: Of some far distant clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer SUMMER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is cold-hearted, / spring is yea and nay Last Line: That days drone elsewehere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life; Summer SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end of all things is at hand Last Line: The end of all things is at hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Advent SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's little sunshine in my heart Last Line: You, guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hearts; Sun SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ's heart was wrung for me Last Line: Christ comes, -- and listens for that hour to strike. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ SURELY THERE IS AN ACHING VOID WITHIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They were not equal to our sin-stained face Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sin; Pride SURSUM CORDA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up your hearts Last Line: And take my will, and take my heart, and take me too. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina SWEET DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest blossoms die Last Line: Prefer to glean with ruth? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SWEETNESS OF REST WHEN THOU SHEDDEST REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Waiting to come to the birth Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): End Time; Patience SYMBOLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a rosebud very long Last Line: Should also take the rod? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Vengeance TAKE CARE OF HIM', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whom I love, for whom I died Last Line: Thou diddest it to me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sacrifice; Jesus Christ TAKE NO THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knows? God knows: and what he knows Last Line: Safe to her nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TASSO AND LEONORA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious vision hovers o'er his soul Last Line: Gazing upon him in the misty light. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Soul; Universe; Vision TEMPUS FUGIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely spring Last Line: And lapsing to winter cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence THAT EDEN OF EARTH'S SUNRISE CANNOT VIE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And call you blessed, in their glad surmise / of paradise Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Eden; Heaven; Adam & Eve THAT NO MAN TAKE THY CROWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be faithful unto death Last Line: Be faithful unto death.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How know I that it looms lovely that land I have never Last Line: Thou art there. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THAT WHICH HATH BEEN IS NAMED ALREADY, AND THAT IS MAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eye hath not seen: - yet man hath known and weighed Last Line: Deep answereth deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE BATTLE WITHIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God strengthen me to bear myself Last Line: Break off the yoke and set me free. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Who Shall Deliver Me? Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE BOATMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ferry me across the water Last Line: "I'll ferry you." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Ferryman;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 88 Subject(s): Ferry Boats THE BOURNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath the growing grass Last Line: Seemed too narrow to contain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jesu, better than thy gifts Last Line: For thee, o only lord, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sick of life and all the world Last Line: For god shall reign and god is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHINAMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Centre of earth!' a chinaman he said Last Line: His tail: those flames became its funeral-pyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): China; Hair; Maps THE CITY MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY [OR, GARDEN] MOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city mouse lives in a house Last Line: Poor little timid furry man. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Mice;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 53 Subject(s): Mice THE CONVENT THRESHOLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's blood between us, love, my love Last Line: And love with old familiar love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE DAY IS AT HAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch yet a while Last Line: Who served for us, who reigns for us above. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she lay so still and pale Last Line: Death hath found her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast Last Line: A very dream of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE EARTH SHALL TREMBLE AT THE LOOK OF THE HIM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the lord Last Line: Tremble, thou earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE ELEVENTH HOUR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint and worn and aged Last Line: Sit thou down for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE END IS NOT YET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home by different ways Last Line: Home by different ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the face that thrills with awe Last Line: This face, the face of jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): The Descent From The Cross Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE FAITHLESS SHEPHERDESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a time when I loved Last Line: And arrest all these fast-flowing tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Unfaithfulness; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE FIRST SPRING DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if the sap is stirring yet Last Line: Till I too blossom and rejoice and sing. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring THE FLOWER FOLK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth Last Line: But the rose with all its thorns excels them both. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Hope;sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 17 Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE FLOWERS APPEAR ON THE EARTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young girls wear flowers Last Line: Lost eden's own delection. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me to see, lord, bring me yet to see Last Line: Friends, brethren, sisters, of lord jesus christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE GERMAN-FRENCH CAMPAIGN, 1870-1871, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All her corn-fields rippled in the sunshine Last Line: After france? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Franco-prussian War (1870-1871) THE GHOST'S PETITION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a footstep coming; look out and see Last Line: "any more with the pains I take?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE GOAL IN SIGHT! LOOK UP AND SING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The goal in sight Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death THE GOLD OF THAT LAND IS GOOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I long for joy, o lord, I long for gold Last Line: To make me long so till thou make me blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE GOOD SHEPHERD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O shepherd with the bleeding feet Last Line: Ninety and nine.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moon impoverished amid stars curtailed Last Line: Where light shines full and where the palm-tree blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charity; Philanthropy THE GREEN CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was green, the sky was blue Last Line: And listened longer than I did. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE HALF MOON SHOWS A FACE OF PLAINTIVE SWEETNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To finished loss or finished gain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Life; Joy; Pain THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep yet a while Last Line: Who died below, who lives for thee above Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Tears; God; Grief THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the overwork of life Last Line: I full of christ and christ of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Life; Soul; Work; Workers THE HILLS ARE TIPPED WITH SUNSHINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mountains; Walking; Nature; Weariness THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jerusalem is built of gold Last Line: Home one by one, home one and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem THE HOUR AND THE GHOST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love, love, hold me fast Last Line: Toss and howl and spin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE INQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the rose of keenest thorn Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Under The Rose; %'the Iniquity Of The Fathers Upon The Children' Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Flowers; Roses; Birth - Out Of Wedlock; Bastards THE KEY-NOTE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the songs I used to know Last Line: Of winter's pause -- and why not I? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The upland flocks grew starved and thinned Last Line: And scarce-saved lambs of westmoreland. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grasmere, England; Lambs THE LAST ANSWER (WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes Last Line: But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Tears; Dead, The THE LAST COMPLAINT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me! An old man said Last Line: My last look of the clear moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The THE LAST LOOK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her face was like an opening rose Last Line: No need, if I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weep Last Line: For ever blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Praise; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOTUS-EATERS; ULYSSES TO PENELOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a far distant land they dwell Last Line: All things resting everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Ulysses; Iliad; Odyssey; Odysseus THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bore with thee, long, weary days and nights Last Line: A harvest--come and reap. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LOWEST PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the lowest place, not that I dare Last Line: My god and love thee so. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE LOWEST ROOM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like flowers sequestered from the sun Last Line: And many last be first. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, the sun hath risen Last Line: Satisfied with hopeful rest, and replete with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Heaven; Martyrs; Religion; Sin; Tears; Paradise; Theology THE MASSACRE OF PERUGIA; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trumpet pealed thro' france. Then italy Last Line: Perugia on her fort-crowned hill Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Nations; Sea; War; Ocean THE MASTER IS COME, AND CALLETH FOR THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who calleth? - thy father calleth Last Line: Bids thee give up thy heart to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE MILKING-MAID, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year stood at its equinox Last Line: Good-bye, my wayside posy! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Farm Walk Subject(s): Admiration THE MONTHS: A PAGEANT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold the day and cold the drifted snow Last Line: And begin dancing round to a stately measure as the curtain falls.] Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons THE NAME OF JESUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jesus, lord god from all eternity Last Line: I plead thyself, I plead thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE NOVICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love one and he loveth me Last Line: And shadowy branches wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Nature; Dead, The THE OFFERING OF THE NEW LAW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought to sit so high Last Line: With these for me thy bread is spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE P.R.B.: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two rossettis (brothers they) Last Line: * * * * * * * Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919); Woolner, Thomas (1825-1892) THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PASSION FLOWER HATH SPRUNG UP TALL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tending toward the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Passion Flowers THE POOR GHOST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh whence do you come, my dear Last Line: "let me sleep now till the judgment day." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Till all sweet gums and juices flow Last Line: Cut down and spread.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purity born of a maid Last Line: Her god and redeemer and child. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virtue; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How comes it, flora, that, whenever we Last Line: Natural affinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Luck THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lovely saints do bring thee love Last Line: A drop from thine abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THE ROSE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle, gentle river / hurrying along Last Line: T will cheer life's wilderness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Life; Rivers; Roses THE ROSE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder Last Line: To gladden earth and cheer all hearts below. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE RUINED CROSS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wreathed bright flower-wreaths in her hair Last Line: The youthful wanderer died. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE SAUCCESSION OF KINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William the norman was brave in the field Last Line: Reigns over england beloved and at peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); England; Peace; English THE SINNER'S OWN FAULT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: God help us both to mend and pray Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Responsibilities THE SOLITARY ROSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy rose, red rose, that bloomest lonely Last Line: O happy rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Flowers; Night; Nightingales; Roses; Bedtime THE SONG OF THE STAR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a star dwelling on high Last Line: In the azure light of infinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Stars THE SPRING IS COME AGAIN NOT AS AT FIRST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Peace on my brow now marked with many a line Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Spring THE SUMMER IS ENDED (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe no more lilies in my hair Last Line: Only a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Summer; Dead, The THE SUMMER IS ENDED (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose Last Line: Bent we cannot re-bend. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer THE THREAD OF LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The irresponsive silence of the land Last Line: And sing, o grave, where is thy victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Jesus Christ; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE THREE ENEMIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, thou art pale Last Line: "answer thou for me, wise and just." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology THE TREES' COUNSELLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was strolling sorrowfully Last Line: "shall discern in all things merit." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THE WATCHERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fell asleep among the flowers Last Line: May they all meet in heaven. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Crosses; Grief; Love; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATER SPIRIT'S SONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silent hour of even Last Line: And with her till morn dwell joyously. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Moon; Sea; Singing & Singers; Stars; Water; Ocean THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boat that sails upon the sea Last Line: And watch and prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ocean THE WHOLE HEAD IS SICK AND THE WHOLE HEART FAINT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe for the young who say that life is long Last Line: And this earth changeth and is perishing Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Youth; Disillusion; Weariness THE WILL OF THE LORD BE DONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, fulfil thy will Last Line: Be the days few or many, good or ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Prayer THE WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day she wooes me, soft, exceeding fair Last Line: Till my feet, cloven too, take hold on hell? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; World THE WORLD'S HARMONIES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh listen, listen, for the earth Last Line: Who turneth from his sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; World THEN I COMMENDED MIRTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A merry heart is a continual feast Last Line: A merry heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THEN SHALL YE SHOUT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems an easy thing Last Line: Our love-song while we wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THEN THEY THAT FEARED THE LORD SPAKE OFTEN ONE TO ANOTHER', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend I commend to thee the narrow way Last Line: Loved us while hating even to death our sin Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Death; God THEN WHOSE SHALL THOSE THINGS BE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh what is earth, that we should build Last Line: While step by step death nears the door? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THERE IS A BUDDING MORROW IN MIDNIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wintry boughs against a wintry sky Last Line: Or about to break. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grave will be no space Last Line: Struggling, panting up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come Last Line: And thou, with john, shalt lie upon my breast Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Calm; Sleep; Weariness THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest remains when all is done Last Line: Struggling panting up to god Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rest THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest remains when all is done Last Line: Struggling, panting up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not if I could undo my past Last Line: Follow me hither, follow, rise, and come.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THEY LIE AT REST, OUR BLESSED DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our own beyond the salt sea-wall Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death THEY PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEE, AND WERE NOT CONFOUNDED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Together once, but never more Last Line: Whatso it be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THEY SHALL BE AS WHITE AS SNOW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whiteness most white Last Line: Whiteness most white. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Virtue; White (color) THIS NEAR-AT-HAND LAND BREEDS PAIN BY MEASURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Come, gaze upon jesu Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU ART FAIRER THAN THE CHILDREN OF MEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose, a lily, and the face of christ Last Line: Complete their orison. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THOU KNEWEST ... THOU OUGHTEST THEREFORE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold in heaven a floating dazzling cloud Last Line: And strong in patient weakness till the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THOU, GOD, SEEST ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me that I should be Last Line: Lord, help me to begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THREE MOMENTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child said: pretty bird Last Line: "oh happy thou!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Children; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Childhood; Suffering; Misery THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THREE SEASONS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cup for hope!' she said Last Line: And solitary dove. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Seasons THREE STAGES: 1. A PAUSE OF THOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked for that which is not, nor can be Last Line: Turnest to follow it. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Pause Of Thought THREE STAGES: 2. THE END OF THE FIRST PART, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My happy happy dream is finished with Last Line: Of the last lingering chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THREE STAGES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to deal the death-stroke at a blow Last Line: What once I gave, again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THRO' BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thro' burden and heat? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worship; Labor & Laborers; Weariness THROUGH THE LAND A RIVER FLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep THUS AM I MINE OWN PRISON. EVERYTHING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus am I mine own prison. Everything Last Line: But what I was I am , I am ever I. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina THY FAINTING SPOUSE, YET STILL THY SPOUSE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tired, thy dove Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage THY FRIEND AND THY FATHER'S FRIEND FORGET NOT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends, I commend to you the narrow way Last Line: For us, and holds us with a wounded hand? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY LILIES DRINK THE DEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Spotless and sweet,thy lamb to follow thee Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lilies; Lambs; God THY NAME, O CHRIST, AS INCENSE STREAMING FORTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nay, lord, what art thou not? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ THY SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT WITH THIS PHILISTINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow of saints is sorrow of a day Last Line: Die for thy lord, as once for thee thy lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TILL TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long have I longed, till I am tired Last Line: Beyond all clouds loves me my heavenly lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging TIME LENGTHENING, IN THE LENGTHENING SEEMETH LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Eternity still here and still to come Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME PASSETH AWAY WITH ITS PLEASURE AND PAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Time passeth away Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time; Eternity TIME SEEMS NOT SHORT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And for a song? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Time TO EVERY SEED HIS OWN BODY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bone to his bone, grain to his grain of dust Last Line: Wrung sore, what will it be to reembrace? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TO LALLA, READING MY VERSES TOPSY-TURVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darling little cousin, / with yout thoughtful look Last Line: Though I know the most. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Reading TO MARY ROSSETTI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were born in the spring Last Line: In green and in flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Spring TO MY FIOR-DI-LISA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose is love's own flower, and love's no less Last Line: In the deep-hearted rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Love; Roses TO MY FIRST LOVE, MY MOTHER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome Last Line: Of time and change and mortal life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sonnets Are Full Of Love Subject(s): Mothers TO MY FRIEND ELIZABETH; WITH SOME POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A COLLECTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest elizabeth, accept, I pray Last Line: Thought here, smiles there; perfection lies betwixt. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To Elizabeth Read Subject(s): Friendship; Postage Stamps; Smiles TO MY MOTHER ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER BIRTH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today's your natal day Last Line: Great happiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): To My Mother On Her Birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Mothers TO THE END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are lilies for her sisters Last Line: And leaning from the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A windy shell singing upon the shore Last Line: Shall he find faith upon the earth? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Faith; Heaven; Love; Singing & Singers; Belief; Creed; Paradise TO WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old admiration before I was twenty Last Line: The fun of a heavy old heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Hearts TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away the bliss Last Line: Tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Passing Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness TODAY AND TO-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the world is out in leaf Last Line: Fast asleep and weary -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Spring Fancies: 2 Subject(s): Change; Earth; Life; Spring; World TODAY'S BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, depart, for this is not your rest Last Line: Nor have those rest who wrestle and who fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TOLL, BELL, TOLL. FOR HOPE IS FLYING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toll, bell, toll Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Hope; Moles; Soul TOUCHING NEVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you never yet have loved me, dear Last Line: Was possible, or probable, or true. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TRINITY SUNDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, thyself being love thy heart is love Last Line: We change, but thou remainest; yea and yea! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Trinity Sunday TRULY THE LIGHT IS SWEET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light colourless doth colour all things else Last Line: Oh well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TU SCENDI DALLE STELLE, O RE DEL CIELO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: E quanto ti costo l'avermi amato Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By thy long-drawn anguish to atone Last Line: All mankind and all I love and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holy Week TUNE ME, O LORD, INTO ONE HARMONY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tune me, o lord Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grace; Love TWICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took my heart in my hand Last Line: But shall not question much. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Women TWILIGHT CALM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh pleasant eventide Last Line: The quiet sands have run. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT NIGHT: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We met hand to hand Last Line: So long ago, as I remember yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Longing TWILIGHT NIGHT: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where my heart is (wherever that may be) Last Line: Again to-day I watch the accustomed way. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Longing TWO ENIGMAS: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Name any gentlemen you spy Last Line: Forth from the sanctuary of home. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): New Enigmas Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Home; Wandering & Wanderers TWO PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing of a love lost and forgotten Last Line: "-- ""oh for the silence that stilleth all sighs."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean TWO PURSUITS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice said, 'follow, follow'; and I rose Last Line: And will not leave me till I shall go hence. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Religion; Voices; Theology TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart that loved me once is rottenness Last Line: Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Thought; Worms; Dead, The; Thinking TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World UNDER WILLOWS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under willows among the graves Last Line: She shall die at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Seasons; Willow Trees UNDINE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She did not answer him again Last Line: The hope of life was o'er. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faces; Hearts; Love; Memory UNFORGOTTEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh unforgotten! / how long ago? One spirit saith Last Line: The single grain shall wax to ten. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Youth; Dead, The UNSPOTTED LAMBS TO FOLLOW THE ONE LAMB, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I know the answer unto love is love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Lambs; Love UNTIL THE DAY BREAK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When will the day bring its pleasure Last Line: Hide in my heart till the vengeance be past.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved Last Line: Last valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Kisses; Life; Time; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1877, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Own mother dear Last Line: Because the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1878, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blessed dear and heart's delight Last Line: Bless your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1879, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother mine / whom every year Last Line: Gives you a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Kisses; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Spring VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1880, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More shower than shine Last Line: Thro' summer's flush, thro' autumn's fading hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1881, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too cold almost for hope of spring Last Line: Is all in all? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1882, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessed mother dozing in her chair Last Line: A lifelong love to this dear saint of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Soul; Valentine's Day; Songs VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1884, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another year of joy and grief Last Line: You guide, & I your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1885, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the robin redbreasts Last Line: And I'm your valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Holidays; Mothers; Valentine's Day VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1886, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter's latest snowflake is the snowdrop flower Last Line: My pleasure and my treasure o blessed mother mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Holidays; Life; Mothers; Valentine's Day VANITY OF VANITIES (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain Last Line: Saying one to another 'how vain it is!' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Vanity VANITY OF VANITIES (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the downfalls in the world Last Line: Kind lord, show pity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina VAPOROUS, UNACCOUNTABLE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sleep VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I marked where lovely venus and her court Last Line: His toil, and laught and hoped and was content. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess) VIGIL OF ALL SAINTS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, my drowsing eyes Last Line: Up! Let's trudge another mile. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints VIGIL OF ANNUNCIATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All weareth, all wasteth Last Line: But their to-morrow's rest what tongue shall say? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Annunciation, The VIGIL OF ST. BATHOLOMEW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, to thine own grant watchful hearts and eyes Last Line: Transfiguring their aspects to his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bartholomew, Saint (1st Century); Saints VIGIL OF ST.PETER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O jesu, gone so far apart Last Line: Thy penitent. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina VIGIL OF THE PRESENTATION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long and dark the nights, dim and short the days Last Line: Thee our god we praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WAS THY WRATH AGAINST THE SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea laments with unappeasable Last Line: Attest: god doeth right. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WE ARE OF THOSE WHO TREMBLE AT THY WORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We are of those Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Faith; Hope WE KNOW NOT WHEN, WE KNOW NOT WHERE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: One day to see him face to face, / one day Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Faith WEARY [IN WELL-DOING], by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would have gone; god bade me stay Last Line: And rest with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Worship WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is death. Yet christ endured to live Last Line: Blood -- in vain? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Holy Week; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice WEE WEE HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Comfits, nor honey Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Money WEIGH ALL MY FAULTS AND FOLLIES RIGHTEOUSLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My guilt, my folly, even my heart of stone Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Judgment Day WHAT ARE THESE LOVELY ONES, YEA, WHAT ARE THESE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We cast our crowns before the lamb our might Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ WHAT GOOD SHALL ALL MY LIFE DO ME', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No hope in life: yet is there hope Last Line: With love and cast their lots with you Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of WHAT GOOD SHALL MY LIFE DO ME?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have dead men long to wait Last Line: Rise up, achieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shout of a king is among them Last Line: One king and one love, and one shout of one worshiping throng. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHAT IS IT JESUS SAITH UNTO THE SOUL?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who tells thee what to-morrow keeps in store? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Future; Worship WHAT IS THAT TO THEE? FOLLOW THOU ME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, my restive heart, lie still Last Line: None other, which thou orderest not. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHAT IS THE BEGINNING?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Worthy you and me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wedding Song WHAT IS THIS ABOVE THY HEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sinner, — or saint Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Saints; Sin; Life Choices WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID .. LEAP CURED INSTEAD OF KILLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, love, that having found a heart Last Line: Fill me and make me wholly thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hate; Hearts; Love; Time WHAT TO DO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh my love and my own own deary Last Line: While my life goes creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Love; Sleep WHAT WILL IT BE, O MY SOUL, WHAT WILL IT BE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To rest and revive and rejoice, to rejoice and to rest Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life Choices WHAT WOULD I GIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through Last Line: To wash the stain ingrain, and to make me clean again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHAT'S IN A NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why has spring one syllable less Last Line: Long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Names; Seasons WHAT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthening as secret manna Last Line: But oh how sweet the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Nightmares WHATSOEVER IS RIGHT, THAT SHALL YE RECEIVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the overwork of life Last Line: All one in christ, so one -- (please god!) -- with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHEN I WAS IN TROUBLE I CALLED UPON THE LORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A burdened heart that bleeds and bears Last Line: Itself thy gift. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHEN MY HEART IS VEXED I WILL COMPLAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are white to harvest, look and see Last Line: At set of sun.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHEN MY HEART IS VEXED I WILL COMPLAIN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, how canst thou say thou lovest me Last Line: Yea, thou shalt wake in paradise with me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Despair; God WHEN WICKEDNESS IS BROKEN AS A TREE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is but a trembling of enraptured love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jerusalem WHERE LOVE IS, THERE COMES SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then such a long to-morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Grief WHERE NEITHER RUST NOR MOTH DOTH CORRUPT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nerve us with patience, lord, to toil or rest Last Line: Past utmost bound of the everlasting hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHERE NEVER TEMPEST HEAVETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor harvest faileth, / reap Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Conduct Of Life WHERE SHALL I FIND A WHITE ROSE BLOWING?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: No more winter and no more sorrow / to-morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Roses; Disappointment WHERE THEIR WORM DIETH NOT, AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In tempest and storm, b;ackness of darkness for ever Last Line: In tempest and storm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Worms WHITHER THE TRIBES GO UP, EVEN THE TRIBES OF THE LORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light is our sorrow for it ends tomorrow Last Line: Sing with all saints and rest with them. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHITSUN DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At sound as of rushing wind, and sight as of fire Last Line: In the power of the holy ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Whitsun WHITSUN EVE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white dove cooeth in her downy nest Last Line: Thou wert born for us in time of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Whitsun WHITSUN EVE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As many as I love. - ah lord Last Line: To thee for rest and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Whitsun WHITSUN MONDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We know not a voice of that river Last Line: The pure river flows. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Whitsun WHITSUN TUESDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord jesus christ, our wisdom and our rest Last Line: Come hither, sit with me upon my throne.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Whitsun WHO CARES FOR EARTHLY BREAD THO WHITE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And bid you meet me there again Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Relationships WHO HATH DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As violets so be I recluse and sweet Last Line: And bloom and make them fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHO HAVE A FORM OF GODLINESS', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sick and tired it is god's will Last Line: Nor fainting though the time be almost past Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Poverty; Solitude; Weariness; God WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP NOT ALONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who is this? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Identity WHO SHALL MY WANDERING THOUGHTS STEADY & FIX, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And having died thou shalt see all things after Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sin WHO SHALL SAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I toiled on, but thou Last Line: Still rememberest thou? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love; Rest; Separation; Isolation WHO SITS WITH THE KING IN HIS THRONE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who sits with the king in his bride Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Courts & Courtiers WHOM THE LORD LOVETH HE CHASTENETH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sorrow more? I thought the tale complete Last Line: One sorrow more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WHY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if I love thee and thou lovest me Last Line: And thou therein shalt waken satisfied.' Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ WIFE TO HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon the faults in me Last Line: I must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WILL THESE HANDS NE'ER BE CLEAN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet Last Line: But thou shalt not forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Vengeance; Dead, The WILL YOU BE THERE?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you be there? My yearning heart has cried Last Line: And find its own fulfilment in your bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blackbird is silenced with chaffinch and thrush Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter WINTER RAIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every valley drinks Last Line: Or lily on the water. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Rain WINTER: MY SECRET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell my secret? No indeed, not I Last Line: Or you may guess. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Secret Subject(s): Secrets; Winter WISDOM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wisest of sparrows that sparrow which sitteth alone Last Line: Seated alone and in peace till god bids it arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Yea, The Sparrow Hath Found An House Subject(s): Sparrows; Wisdom WISHES; SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Would that I were very far away Last Line: And heard thy gentle voice, my mother kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Sea; Wishes; Ocean WITHERING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fade tender lily Last Line: Back to pleasant spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Autumn Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Flowers; Seasons; Fall WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a lily in her hand Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses WORSHIP GOD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, if thy word had been Last Line: Wilt thou not wait? Yea, thou hast waited long. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina WRESTLING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas my lord / how should I wrestle all the livelong night Last Line: Hold thou us fast, and give us sleep till day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Jesus Christ; Love; Prayer; Strength YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT SION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear, faith, and hope, have sent their hearts above Last Line: Of glory, look on love and mirror love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy dead, dear friend Last Line: Take comfort, he will not forget Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Soul; Angels; Heaven; God YE THAT FEAR HIM, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great or small below Last Line: Crowned, discrowned, in adoration of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My vineyard that is mine I have to keep Last Line: It yet can rear thy palm Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Harvest; Pleasure YEA, IF THOU WILT, THOU CANST PUT UP THY SWORD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yea, if thou wilt Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Power YET A LITTLE WHILE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven is not far, tho' far the sky Last Line: O lord, how long? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina YET A LITTLE WHILE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days are long before I die Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Peace; Seasons; Dead, The YET A LITTLE WHILE (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed and did not seek Last Line: I hope, and I abide. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina YOU WHO LOOK ON PASSED AGES AS A GLASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It shall be nothing to the end of time Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Past; Time YOUNG DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying / such sweet things untasted Last Line: And god the temple. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The YOUNG MEN .. WERE FICKLE FOUND SINCE SUMMER TREES WERE LEAFY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go in peace my beloved; tho' never again Last Line: In thy far-distant country and sun-gladdened clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ZARA (2) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale sad face of her I wronged Last Line: Shall not we twain repose together? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cups; Love; Memory; Soul ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares ZION SAID', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O slain for love of me, canst thou be cold Last Line: Oh take me to thyself and comfort me Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Comfort; Erotic Love; Weariness; God |
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