Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
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-bornTook on her bosom its repose,And slept and woke there..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Heartsease In My Garden Bed
Heartsease in my garden bed,With sweetwilliam white and red,Honeysuckle on my wall: -Heartsease blossoms in my heartWhen sweet William comes to..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Heart’s Chill Between
I did not chide him, though I knewThat he was false to me.Chide the exhaling of the dew,The ebbing of the sea,The fading of a rosy hue,—But not..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Hear What The Mournful Linnets Say
Hear what the mournful linnets say:‘We built our nest compact and warm,But cruel boys came round our wayAnd took our summerhouse by storm.‘They..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Grown And Flown
I loved my love from green of SpringUntil sere Autumn's fall;But now that leaves are witheringHow should one love at all?One heart's too smallFor..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Growing In The Vale
Growing in the valeBy the uplands hilly,Growing straight and frail,Lady Daffadowndilly.In a golden crown,And a scant green gownWhile the spring blows..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
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 again.’‘Goodbye today, goodbye..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Good Friday
Am I a stone and not a sheepThat I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy Cross,To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,And yet not weep?Not so those..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Gone For Ever
O happy rosebud bloomingUpon thy parent tree,Nay, thou art too presumingFor soon the earth entombingThy faded charms shall be,And the chill damp..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Goblin Market
MORNING and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:"Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy:Apples and quinces,Lemons and oranges,Plump unpecked..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Give Me Holly
But give me holly, bold and jolly,Honest, prickly, shining holly;Pluck me holly leaf and berryFor the day when I make merry
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
From The Antique
It's a weary life, it is, she said:Doubly blank in a woman's lot:I wish and I wish I were a man:Or, better then any being, were not:Were nothing at..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
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,A sluggard with a thorn-choked..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
From House To House
The first was like a dream through summer heat,The second like a tedious numbing swoon,While the half-frozen pulses lagged to beatBeneath a winter..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
From “later Life”
VIWe lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack:Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly.We see the things we do not yearn to seeAround us: and what see..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fly Away, Fly Away Over The Sea
Fly away, fly away over the sea,Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done;Come again, come again, come back to me,Bringing the summer and bringing the..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fluttered Wings
The splendour of the kindling day,The splendor of the setting sun,These move my soul to wend its way,And have doneWith all we grasp and toil amongst..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Ferry Me Across The Water
‘Ferry me across the water,Do, boatman, do.’‘If you've a penny in your purseI'll ferry you.’‘I have a penny in my purse,And my eyes are blue;So ferry..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fata Morgana
A blue-eyed phantom far beforeIs laughing, leaping toward the sun:Like lead I chase it evermore,I pant and run.It breaks the sunlight bound on..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Eve
'While I sit at the doorSick to gaze withinMine eye weepeth soreFor sorrow and sin:As a tree my sin standsTo darken all lands;Death is the fruit it..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Endure Hardness
A cold wind stirs the blackthornTo burgeon and to blow,Besprinkling half-green hedgesWith flakes and sprays of snow.Through coldness and through..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Eight O'Clock
Eight o'clock;The postman's knock!Five letters for Papa;One for Lou,And none for you,And three for dear Mamma.
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
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 brightAs sunlight on a..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Easter Even
There is nothing more that they can doFor all their rage and boast;Caiaphas with his blaspheming crew,Herod with his host,Pontius Pilate in his..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
Dream-Love
Young Love lies sleepingIn May-time of the year,Among the lilies,Lapped in the tender light:White lambs come grazing,White doves come building..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti