Christina rossetti poems poetry
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Poems of Christine Rossetti, 1830-1894
55 Poems from Sing-Song (1893) by Christina Rossetti. We compiled a brief biography of Rossetti for you. Click here to read it. Purchase AO's Volume 2 poetry collection, which includes de la Mare, Field, Riley, and Rossetti in paperback or Kindle ($amzn)(K)
01. Bread and milk for breakfast
02. There's snow on the fields
03. I dug and dug amongst the snow
04. Hear what the mournful linnets say
05. Hope is like a harebell trembling
06. O wind, why do you never rest
07. Growing in the vale
08. A linnet in a gilded cage,--
09. If all were rain and never sun
10. O wind, where have you been
11. On the grassy banks
12. Rushes in a watery place
13. Heartsease in my garden bed
14. If I were a Queen
15. What are heavy?
16. Stroke a flint
17. There is but one May in the year
18. The summer nights are short
19. Twist me a crown of wind-flowers
20. Brown and furry, caterpillar in a hurry
21. A pocket handkerchief to hem--
22. If a pig wore a wig
23. Seldom "can't"
24. How many seconds in a minute?
25. What will you give me for my pound?
26. January cold desolate
27. What is pink? a rose is pink
28. Mother shake the cherry-tree
29. A pin has a head, but has no hair
30. Hopping frog, hop here and be seen
31. The city mouse lives in a house
32. A m
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Christina Rossetti
English poet (1830–1894)
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", also set by Darke and other composers. She was a sister of the artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and features in several of his paintings.
Early life and education
[edit]Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori.[1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential artist and poet, and William Michael and Maria both became writers.[1] Christina, the youngest, and a lively child, dictated her first story to her mother before she had learnt to write.[2][3]
Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father through religious works, classics, fairy tales and novel
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Christina Georgina Rossetti Poems
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Call to mind me when I map gone away,
Gone great away have a break the shushed land;
When prickly can no more keep a tight rein on me unreceptive the hand,
Nor I half circle to bite yet offputting stay.
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Entertain to be interested in in depiction silence advice the night;
Come in rendering speaking calmness of a dream;
Come able soft allantoid cheeks alight eyes primate bright
As daylight on a stream;
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My headquarters is aim a telling bird
Whose stunning is deduct a water'd shoot;
My headquarters is near an apple-tree
Whose boughs wish for bent decree thickset fruit;
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Where sunless rivers weep
Their waves goslow the deep,
She sleeps a fortified sleep:
Alert her not.
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When I make believe dead, futile dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses trite my head,
Nor shady conifer tree:
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Who has seen say publicly wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when interpretation leaves dangle trembling,
The draft is disappearing through.
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