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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rossettis life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Features Dante Gabirel Rossettis accompanying illustrations to GOBLIN MARKET
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Includes Rossettis complete short stories and her rare novella MAUDE, appearing for the first time in digital print
* Features a bonus biography by the Pre-Raphaelite expert Theodore Watts-Dunton - discover Rossettis literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
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CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
VERSES, 1847
GOBLIN MARKET AND OTHER POEMS
THE PRINCES PROGRESS AND OTHER POEMS
SING-SONG: A NURSERY RHYME BOOK
A PAGEANT AND OTHER POEMS
VERSES, 1893
SOME FEASTS AND FASTS
GIFTS AND GRACES
THE WORLD: SELF-DESTRUCTION
DIVERS WORLDS:TIME AND ETERNITY
NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS
SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS
PRIVATELY PUBLISHED POEMS
UNPUBLISHED POEMS
The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Fiction
COMMONPLACE AND OTHER STORIES
MAUDE: A STORY FOR GIRLS
The Biography
CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
(18301894)
Contents
Delphi Classics 2012
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI
By Delphi Classics, 2012
NOTE
When reading poetry on an eReader, it is advisable to use a small font size, which will allow the lines of poetry to display correctly.
38 Charlotte Street (now 105 Hallam Street ), London Rossettis birthplace
The poet with her mother, painted by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the famous Pre-Raphaelite artist. Their mother Frances Polidori was the sister of Lord Byrons friend and physician, John William Polidori.
The poets father, Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo
Christina Rossetti was the first member of the Pre-Raphaelites to achieve widespread literary success, following the 1862 publication of her narrative poem Goblin Market . Born in London in 1830, her parents were Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byrons friend and physician, John William Polidori. Christina was the youngest of four children in a family fused with literary and artistic interests. Like her older siblings, Christina began writing and drawing at an early age. Her maternal grandfather Polidori doted on Christina and in 1847 he had the following collection of her verses privately published. Her first public poems appeared later in the Athenaeum, when she was only eighteen years old. She wrote poetry, fiction and non-fiction works prolifically throughout her life.
Christinas early poetry reflects her deep religious devotion. She was a High Church Anglican and a disciple of Tractarianism, a radically conservative position. When she was 13, Christina began attending Christ Church with her mother and sister Maria. About this time, Christina went through a transformation that her friends and family were at a loss to explain. As a girl, she was spirited, passionate and hot-tempered to the point of self-destruction: she reports once ripping her arm with scissors after her mother chastised her for some small offense. Her brother William Michael Rossetti wrote that In innate character she was vivacious and open to pleasurable impressions, and during girlhood, one might readily have supposed that she would develop into a woman of expansive heart, fond of society and diversions, and taking part in them of more than average brilliancy.
Portrait of Rossetti, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
CONTENTS
THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE
I bore with thee long weary days and nights,
Through many pangs of heart, through many tears;
I bore with thee, thy hardness, coldness, slights,
For three and thirty years.
Who else had dared for thee what I have dared?
I plunged the depth most deep from bliss above;
I not My flesh, I not My spirit spared:
Give thou Me love for love.
For thee I thirsted in the daily drouth,
For thee I trembled in the nightly frost:
Much sweeter thou than honey to My mouth:
Why wilt thou still be lost?
I bore thee on My shoulders and rejoiced:
Men only marked upon My shoulders borne
The branding cross; and shouted hungry-voiced,
Or wagged their heads in scorn.
Thee did nails grave upon My hands, thy name
Did thorns for frontlets stamp between Mine eyes:
I, Holy One, put on thy guilt and shame;
I, God, Priest, Sacrifice.
A thief upon My right hand and My left;
Six hours alone, athirst, in misery:
At length in death one smote My heart and cleft
A hiding-place for thee.
Nailed to the racking cross, than bed of down
More dear, whereon to stretch Myself and sleep:
So did I win a kingdom, share my crown;
A harvest, come and reap.
A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK
I will accept thy will to do and be,
Thy hatred and intolerance of sin,
Thy will at least to love, that burns within
And thirsteth after Me:
So will I render fruitful, blessing still,
The germs and small beginnings in thy heart,
Because thy will cleaves to the better part.
Alas, I cannot will.
Dost not thou will, poor soul? Yet I receive
The inner unseen longings of the soul,
I guide them turning towards Me; I control
And charm hearts till they grieve:
If thou desire, it yet shall come to pass,
Though thou but wish indeed to choose My love;
For I have power in earth and heaven above.
I cannot wish, alas!
What, neither choose nor wish to choose? and yet
I still must strive to win thee and constrain:
For thee I hung upon the cross in pain,
How then can I forget?
If thou as yet dost neither love, nor hate,
Nor choose, nor wish, resign thyself, be still
Till I infuse love, hatred, longing, will.
I do not deprecate.
A BETTER RESURRECTION
I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears.
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk;
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.
My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the searching cold
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him my King:
O Jesus, drink of me.
ADVENT: THIS ADVENT MOON SHINES COLD AND CLEAR
This Advent moon shines cold and clear,
These Advent nights are long;
Our lamps have burned year after year
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