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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

I Caught A Little Ladybird

I Caught A Little Ladybird

I caught a little ladybird
That flies far away;
I caught a little lady wife
That is both staid and gay.
Come back,…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

I Dug And Dug Amongst The Snow

I Dug And Dug Amongst The Snow

I dug and dug amongst the snow,
And thought the flowers would never grow;
I dug and dug amongst the sand,
And still …

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Hurt No Living Thing

Hurt No Living Thing

Hurt no living thing:
Ladybird, nor butterfly,
Nor moth with dusty wing,
Nor cricket chirping cheerily,
Nor grasshopper …

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Hopping Frog, Hop Here And Be Seen

Hopping Frog, Hop Here And Be Seen

Hopping frog, hop here and be seen,
I'll not pelt you with stick or stone:
Your cap is laced and your coat is green; <…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Herself A Rose Who Bore The Rose

Herself A Rose Who Bore The Rose

Herself a rose, who bore the Rose,
She bore the Rose and felt its thorn.
All loveliness new-born
Took on her bosom…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Hope Is Like A Harebell Trembling From Its Birth

Hope Is Like A Harebell Trembling From Its Birth

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth,
Love is like a rose the joy of all the earth;
Faith is…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Heart’s Chill Between

Heart’s Chill Between

I did not chide him, though I knew
That he was false to me.
Chide the exhaling of the dew,
The ebbing of the sea,
The f…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Grown And Flown

Grown And Flown

I loved my love from green of Spring
Until sere Autumn's fall;
But now that leaves are withering
How should one love at all?

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Gone For Ever

Gone For Ever

O happy rosebud blooming
Upon thy parent tree,
Nay, thou art too presuming
For soon the earth entombing
Thy faded charms shall …

265
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Goodbye In Fear, Goodbye In Sorrow,

Goodbye In Fear, Goodbye In Sorrow,

‘Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow,
Goodbye, and all in vain,
Never to meet again, my dear -’
‘Never to part a…

227
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Give Me Holly

Give Me Holly

But give me holly, bold and jolly,
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry

270
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

From Sunset to Star Rise

From Sunset to Star Rise

Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,

228
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Fluttered Wings

Fluttered Wings

The splendour of the kindling day,
The splendor of the setting sun,
These move my soul to wend its way,
And have done
With al…

230
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

From “Later Life”

From “Later Life”

VI
We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack:
Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly.
We see the things we do not yearn to see <…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Fata Morgana

Fata Morgana

A blue-eyed phantom far before
Is laughing, leaping toward the sun:
Like lead I chase it evermore,
I pant and run.


I…

271
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Endure Hardness

Endure Hardness

A cold wind stirs the blackthorn
To burgeon and to blow,
Besprinkling half-green hedges
With flakes and sprays of snow.

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Dream-Love

Dream-Love


Young Love lies sleeping
In May-time of the year,
Among the lilies,
Lapped in the tender light:
White lambs come grazing,

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Echo

Echo


Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sun…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Despised And Rejected

Despised And Rejected

My sun has set, I dwell
In darkness as a dead man out of sight;
And none remains, not one, that I should tell
To him mine evi…

228
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Dost Thou Not Care?

Dost Thou Not Care?

I love and love not: Lord, it breaks my heart
To love and not to love.
Thou veiled within Thy glory, gone apart
Into Thy shrine…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Dead In The Cold, A Song-Singing Thrush

Dead In The Cold, A Song-Singing Thrush

Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, -
Weave him a coffin of rush,

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Dead Before Death

Dead Before Death

Ah! changed and cold, how changed and very cold,
With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes:
Changed, yet the same; much knowing, l…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary?

Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary?

Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder:
I must tramp on throu…

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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti

Dancing On The Hill-Tops

Dancing On The Hill-Tops

Dancing on the hill-tops,
Singing in the valleys,
Laughing with the echoes,
Merry little Alice.
Playing games with l…

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