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Christina Georgina Rossetti's Poetry, by title

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  • A Baby's Cradle With No Baby In It
    A baby's cradle with no baby in it,
    A baby's grave where autumn leaves drop sere;
    5 lines
  • A Better Ressurection
    I have no wit, no words, no tears;
    My heart within me like a stone
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • A Bird’s-Eye View
    'Croak, croak, croak,'
    Thus the Raven spoke,
    89 lines
  • A Birthday
    My heart is like a singing bird
    Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
    18 lines, 6 comments
  • A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break
    I will accept thy will to do and be,
    Thy hatred and intolerance of sin,
    25 lines
  • A Chill
    What can lambkins do
    All the keen night through?
    13 lines
  • A Christmas Carol
    In the bleak mid-winter
    Frosty wind made moan,
    41 lines, 2 comments
  • A City Plum Is Not A Plum
    A city plum is not a plum;
    A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • A Daughter Of Eve
    A fool I was to sleep at noon,
    And wake when night is chilly
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • A Diamond Or A Coal?
    A diamond or a coal?
    A diamond, if you please:
    9 lines
  • A Dirge
    Why were you born when the snow was falling?
    You should have come to the cuckoo's calling
    13 lines
  • A Dream
    Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)
    We stood together in an open field;
    15 lines
  • A Farm Walk
    The year stood at its equinox
    And bluff the North was blowing,
    69 lines
  • A Frisky Lamb
    A frisky lamb
    And a frisky child
    9 lines
  • A Frog's Fate
    Contemptuous of his home beyond
    The village and the village-pond,
    36 lines
  • A Green Cornfield
    The earth was green, the sky was blue:
    I saw and heard one sunny morn
    16 lines
  • A Hope Carol
    A night was near, a day was near,
    Between a day and night
    25 lines, 2 comments
  • A House Of Cards
    A house of cards
    Is neat and small:
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • A Linnet In A Gilded Cage
    A linnet in a gilded cage, -
    A linnet on a bough, -
    9 lines
  • A Motherless Soft Lambkin
    A motherless soft lambkin
    Along upon a hill;
    9 lines
  • A Pause
    They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves,
    And the bed sweet with flowers on which I lay;
    15 lines, 2 comments
  • A Pause Of Thought
    I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
    And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
    21 lines
  • A Peal Of Bells
    Strike the bells wantonly,
    Tinkle tinkle well;
    31 lines
  • A Pin Has A Head, But Has No Hair
    A pin has a head, but has no hair;
    A clock has a face, but no mouth there;
    15 lines
  • A Pocket Handkerchief To Hem
    A pocket handkerchief to hem -
    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!
    9 lines
  • A Portrait
    I
    She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
    31 lines
  • A Ring Posy
    Jess and Jill are pretty girls,
    Plump and well to do,
    22 lines
  • A Ring Upon Her Finger
    A ring upon her finger,
    Walks the bride,
    13 lines
  • A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey
    A rose has thorns as well as honey,
    I'll not have her for love or money;
    17 lines
  • A Royal Princess
    I, a princess, king-descended, decked with jewels, gilded, drest,
    Would rather be a peasant with her baby at her breast,
    109 lines
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