Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems....
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Christina Rossetti was in a sense the first poet of the Pre-Raphelites, her Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) having been - as if by accident - the writing from that group which first caught public attention. It contains many of her best poems. Later work - devotional poems, love lyrics and descriptive pieces - extended the themes and forms of her first remarkable collection. It is remarkable, but in a quiet and intense way, not in the manner of those who seem to have learned from her among her contemporaries. Ford Madox Ford, who had a subtle ear for the unemphatic excellence of the ninete
Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; COUPLET; MARY MAGDALENE; SPRING QUIET; SONG; BITTER FOR SWEET; THREE STAGES; ONE CERTAINTY; TWO PURSUITS; A TESTIMONY; SONG; AFTER DEATH; LOOKING FORWARD; REMEMBER; SEEKING REST; A PORTRAIT; ENDURANCE; WITHERING; TWILIGHT CALM; TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH; IS AND WAS; THE THREE ENEMIES; THE SUMMER IS ENDED; FROM THE ANTIQUE; FOR ROSALINE'S ALBUM; NEXT OF KIN; A PAUSE; HOLY INNOCENTS; A WISH; SEASONS; BALLAD; FROM THE ANTIQUE; LISTENING; ECHO; THE FIRST SPRING DAY; MY DREAM; THE LAST LOOK; MAY; OLD AND NEW YEAR DITTIES; SHUT OUT
A CHILLY NIGHTIN THE LANE; A BED OF FORGET-ME-NOTS; LOVE FROM THE NORTH; A BETTER RESURRECTION; THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS; FATA MORGANA; ONE DAY; INTROSPECTIVE; IN THE ROUND TOWER AT JHANSI; MEMORY; A BIRTHDAY; AN APPLE GATHERING; WINTER: MY SECRET; MY FRIEND; ANOTHER SPRING; UP-HILL; AT HOME; TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW; YET A LITTLE WHILE; GOBLIN MARKET; L. E. L.; SPRING; WHAT GOOD SHALL MY LIFE DO ME?; COUSIN KATE; from THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS; SISTER MAUDE; 'NO, THANK YOU, JOHN'; MIRAGE; THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE (1860); WIFE TO HUSBAND; PROMISES LIKE PIE-CRUST; THE LOWEST PLACE; SONG
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THE QUEEN OF HEARTSA DUMB FRIEND; LIFE AND DEATH; SOMEWHERE OR OTHER; WEARY IN WELL-DOING; SUMMER; WHAT WOULD I GIVE!; GROWN AND FLOWN; EVE; SHALL I FORGET?; DEAD HOPE; ENRICA; ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO; A DAUGHTER OF EVE; A DIRGE; 'TO-DAY FOR ME'; A CHRISTMAS CAROL; YET A LITTLE WHILE; 'I WISH I COULD REMEMBER'; 'YOUTH GONE, AND BEAUTY GONE'; THE KEY-NOTE; HE AND SHE; A LIFE'S PARALLELS; PASTIME; ONE SEA-SIDE GRAVE; 'BURY HOPE …'; 'ROSES ON A BRIER…'; 'HEAVEN'S CHIMES ARE SLOW …'; 'A COLD WIND STIRS …'; 'LORD, WHAT HAVE I TO OFFER? …'; 'THE FIELDS ARE WHITE …'; 'MARGARET HAS A MILKING-PAIL'
