Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti
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.

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Poems
ᐈ A Baby's Cradle With No Baby In It
ᐈ A Ballad Of Boding
ᐈ A Better Ressurection
ᐈ A Bird’s-Eye View
ᐈ A Birthday
ᐈ A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break
ᐈ A Chill
ᐈ A Chilly Night
ᐈ A Christmas Carol
ᐈ A City Plum Is Not A Plum
ᐈ A Daughter Of Eve
ᐈ A Diamond Or A Coal?
ᐈ A Dirge
ᐈ A Dream
ᐈ A Farm Walk
ᐈ A Frisky Lamb
ᐈ A Frog's Fate
ᐈ A Green Cornfield
ᐈ A Hope Carol
ᐈ A House Of Cards
ᐈ A Linnet In A Gilded Cage
ᐈ A Motherless Soft Lambkin
ᐈ A Pause
ᐈ A Pause Of Thought
ᐈ A Peal Of Bells
ᐈ A Pin Has A Head, But Has No Hair
ᐈ A Pocket Handkerchief To Hem
ᐈ A Portrait
ᐈ A Riddle
ᐈ A Ring Posy
ᐈ A Ring Upon Her Finger
ᐈ A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey
ᐈ A Royal Princess
ᐈ A Study (A Soul)
ᐈ A Summer Wish
ᐈ A Testimony
ᐈ A Toadstool Comes Up In A Night
ᐈ A Triad
ᐈ A White Hen Sitting
ᐈ A Year’s Windfalls
ᐈ Advent
ᐈ After Death
ᐈ After This The Judgement
ᐈ All The Bells Were Ringing
ᐈ Aloof
ᐈ Amen
ᐈ Amor Mundi
ᐈ An Apple-Gathering
ᐈ An Echo From Willowood
ᐈ An Emerald Is As Green As Grass
ᐈ An End
ᐈ An October Garden
ᐈ Angels At The Foot
ᐈ Another Spring
ᐈ At Home
ᐈ Autumn
ᐈ Autumn Violets
ᐈ Baby Cry
ᐈ Baby Lies So Fast Asleep
ᐈ Beauty Is Vain
ᐈ Before The Paling Of The Stars
ᐈ Beneath Thy Cross
ᐈ Bird Or Beast?
ᐈ Bird Raptures
ᐈ Bitter For Sweet
ᐈ Blind From My Birth
ᐈ Boats Sail On The Rivers
ᐈ Bread And Milk For Breakfast
ᐈ Bride Song
ᐈ Brown And Furry
ᐈ Brownie, Brownie, Let Down Your Milk
ᐈ By The Sea
ᐈ By The Waters Of Babylon
ᐈ Child's Talk In April
ᐈ Christian And Jew
ᐈ Christmas Eve
ᐈ Clever Little Willie Wee
ᐈ Clouds
ᐈ Cobwebs
ᐈ Color
ᐈ Come Unto Me
ᐈ Conference Between Christ, The Saints, And The Soul
ᐈ Consider
ᐈ Consider
ᐈ Consider The Lilies Of The Field
ᐈ Cousin Kate
ᐈ Crimson Curtains Round My Mother's Bed
ᐈ Crying, My Little One, Footsore And Weary?
ᐈ Currants On A Bush
ᐈ Dancing On The Hill-Tops
ᐈ De Profundis
ᐈ Dead Before Death
ᐈ Dead Hope
ᐈ Dead In The Cold, A Song-Singing Thrush
ᐈ Death’s Chill Between
ᐈ Despised And Rejected
ᐈ Ding A Ding
ᐈ Dost Thou Not Care?
ᐈ Dream Land
ᐈ Dream-Love
ᐈ Easter Even
ᐈ Echo
ᐈ Eight O'Clock
ᐈ Endure Hardness
ᐈ Eve
ᐈ Fata Morgana
ᐈ Ferry Me Across The Water
ᐈ Fluttered Wings
ᐈ Fly Away, Fly Away Over The Sea
ᐈ From “later Life”
ᐈ From House To House
ᐈ From Sunset To Star Rise
ᐈ From The Antique
ᐈ Give Me Holly
ᐈ Goblin Market
ᐈ Gone For Ever
ᐈ Good Friday
ᐈ Goodbye In Fear, Goodbye In Sorrow,
ᐈ Growing In The Vale
ᐈ Grown And Flown
ᐈ Hear What The Mournful Linnets Say
ᐈ Heart’s Chill Between
ᐈ Heartsease In My Garden Bed
ᐈ Herself A Rose Who Bore The Rose
ᐈ Holy Innocents
ᐈ Hope Is Like A Harebell Trembling From Its Birth
ᐈ Hop-O'-My-Thumb And Little Jack Horner
ᐈ Hopping Frog, Hop Here And Be Seen
ᐈ How Many Seconds In A Minute?
ᐈ Hurt No Living Thing
ᐈ I Am A King
ᐈ I Caught A Little Ladybird
ᐈ I Dreamt I Caught A Little Owl
ᐈ I Dug And Dug Amongst The Snow
ᐈ I Have A Little Husband
ᐈ I Have A Poll Parrot
ᐈ I Have But One Rose In The World
ᐈ I Know A Baby, Such A Baby
ᐈ I Know You Not
ᐈ I loved you first: but afterwards your love
ᐈ I Planted A Hand
ᐈ If
ᐈ If A Mouse Could Fly
ᐈ If A Pig Wore A Wig
ᐈ If All Were Rain And Never Sun
ᐈ If Hope Grew On A Bush
ᐈ If I Were A Queen
ᐈ If Only
ᐈ If Stars Dropped Out Of Heaven
ᐈ If The Moon Came From Heaven
ᐈ If The Sun Could Tell Us Half
ᐈ In An Artist's Studio
ᐈ In Progress
ᐈ In The Bleak Midwinter
ᐈ In The Meadow - What In The Meadow?
ᐈ In The Round Tower At Jhansi
ᐈ In The Willow Shade
ᐈ Introspective
ᐈ Is It Well With The Child?
ᐈ Is The Moon Tired? She Looks So Pale
ᐈ January Cold Desolate
ᐈ Jesus, Do I Love Thee?
ᐈ Kookoorookoo! Kookoorookoo!
ᐈ L. E. L.
ᐈ Lady Maggie
ᐈ Last Night
ᐈ Later Life
ᐈ Let Me Go
ᐈ Lie A-Bed
ᐈ Life And Death
ᐈ Light Love
ᐈ Long Barren
ᐈ Lord Jesus, Who Would Think That I Am Thine?
ᐈ Love Came Down At Christmas
ᐈ Love From The North
ᐈ Love Me - I Love You
ᐈ Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby!
ᐈ Maiden May
ᐈ Maiden-Song
ᐈ Margaret Has A Milking-Pail
ᐈ Marvel Of Marvels
ᐈ Maude Clare
ᐈ May
ᐈ Memory
ᐈ Minnie And Mattie
ᐈ Minnie Bakes Oaten Cakes
ᐈ Mirage
ᐈ Mix A Pancake
ᐈ Monna Innominata: A Sonnet Of Sonnets
ᐈ Mother Country
ᐈ Mother Shake The Cherry-Tree
ᐈ Motherless Baby And Babyless Mother
ᐈ My Baby Has A Father And A Mother
ᐈ My Baby Has A Mottled Fist
ᐈ My Dream
ᐈ My Friend
ᐈ No, Thank You John
ᐈ Noble Sisters
ᐈ None Other Lamb
ᐈ O Lady Moon
ᐈ O Sailor, Come Ashore
ᐈ O Wind, Where Have You Been
ᐈ O Wind, Why Do You Never Rest
ᐈ Oh, Fair To See
ᐈ Old And New Year Ditties
ᐈ On The Death Of A Cat
ᐈ On The Grassy Banks
ᐈ On the Wing
ᐈ On the Wing
ᐈ Once For All
ᐈ One And One Are Two
ᐈ One Day
ᐈ One Sea-Side Grave
ᐈ Our Little Baby Fell Asleep
ᐈ Paradise: In A Dream
ᐈ Paradise: In A Symbol
ᐈ Passing Away, Saith The World
ᐈ Playing At Bob Cherry
ᐈ Promises Like Pie-Crust
ᐈ Remember
ᐈ Repining
ᐈ Requiem
ᐈ Rest
ᐈ Roses Blushing Red And White
ᐈ Rosy Maiden Winifred
ᐈ Rushes In A Watery Place
ᐈ Sappho
ᐈ Seasons
ᐈ Seldom ‘can'T’
ᐈ Shall I Forget?
ᐈ She's Such A Senseless Wooden Thing
ᐈ Shut Out
ᐈ Silent Noon
ᐈ Sing Me A Song
ᐈ Sleeping At Last
ᐈ Somewhere Or Other
ᐈ Song
ᐈ Song Ii
ᐈ Song Iii
ᐈ Song Iv
ᐈ Song V
ᐈ Songs In A Cornfield
ᐈ Sonnets Are Full Of Love
ᐈ Sound Sleep
ᐈ Spring
ᐈ Spring Quiet
ᐈ Stroke A Flint
ᐈ Summer
ᐈ Summer Is Ended
ᐈ Sweet Death
ᐈ Swift And Sure The Swallow
ᐈ Symbols
ᐈ The Hour And The Ghost
ᐈ The Bourne
ᐈ The Caterpillar
ᐈ The City Mouse And The Garden Mouse
ᐈ The Convent Threshold
ᐈ The Days Are Clear
ᐈ The Dear Old Woman In The Lane
ᐈ The Dog Lies In His Kennel
ᐈ The First Day
ᐈ The First Spring Day
ᐈ The Ghost’s Petition
ᐈ The Horses Of The Sea
ᐈ The Lily Has A Smooth Stalk
ᐈ The Lily Has An Air
ᐈ The Love Of Christ Which Passeth Kowledge
ᐈ The Offering Of The New Law, The One Oblation Once Offered
ᐈ The One Certainty
ᐈ The Peach Tree On The Southern Wall
ᐈ The Peacock Has A Score Of Eyes
ᐈ The Poor Ghost
ᐈ The Prince's Progress (Excerpt)
ᐈ The Queen Of Hearts
ᐈ The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red
ᐈ The Skylark
ᐈ The Summer Nights Are Short
ᐈ The Thread Of Life
ᐈ The Three Enemies
ᐈ The Wind Has Such A Rainy Sound
ᐈ The World
ᐈ There Is But One May In The Year,
ᐈ There Is One That Has A Head Without An Eye
ᐈ There's Snow On The Fields
ᐈ They Desire A Better Country
ᐈ Three Little Children
ᐈ Three Plum Buns
ᐈ Three Seasons
ᐈ To My Mother
ᐈ Twice
ᐈ Twilight Calm
ᐈ Twilight Night
ᐈ Twist Me A Crown Of Wind-Flowers
ᐈ Under The Ivy Bush
ᐈ Under The Rose
ᐈ Up-Hill
ᐈ Vanity Of Vanities
ᐈ Venus's Looking-Glass
ᐈ Weary In Well-Doing
ᐈ Wee Wee Husband
ᐈ What Are Heavy? Sea-Sand And Sorrow
ᐈ What Do The Stars Do
ᐈ What Does The Bee Do?
ᐈ What Does The Donkey Bray About?
ᐈ What Will You Give Me For My Pound?
ᐈ What Would I Give
ᐈ When A Mounting Skylark Sings
ᐈ When Fishes Set Umbrellas Up
ᐈ When I Am Dead, My Dearest
ᐈ When The Cows Come Home The Milk Is Coming
ᐈ Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are
ᐈ Who Has Seen The Wind?
ᐈ Who Hath Despised The Day Of Small Things?
ᐈ Who Shall Deliver Me?
ᐈ Why Did Baby Die?
ᐈ Wife To Husband
ᐈ Winter Rain
ᐈ Winter: My Secret
ᐈ Within The Veil
ᐈ Wrens And Robins In The Hedge
ᐈ Your Brother Has A Falcon