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").
A Pause Of Thought
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:But years must pass before a hope of youthIs resigned..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Pause
They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves,And the bed sweet with flowers on which I lay;While my soul, love-bound, loitered on its way.I..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Motherless Soft Lambkin
A motherless soft lambkinAlong upon a hill;No mother's fleece to shelter himAnd wrap him from the cold: -I'll run to him and comfort him,I'll fetch..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Linnet In A Gilded Cage
A linnet in a gilded cage, -A linnet on a bough, -In frosty winter one might doubtWhich bird is luckier now.But let the trees burst out in leaf,And..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A House Of Cards
A house of cardsIs neat and small:Shake the table,It must fall.Find the Court cardsOne by one;Raise it, roof it, -Now it's done: -Shake the..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Hope Carol
A night was near, a day was near,Between a day and nightI heard sweet voices calling clear,Calling me:I heard a whirr of wing on wing,But could not..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Green Cornfield
The earth was green, the sky was blue:I saw and heard one sunny mornA skylark hang betweent he two,A singing speck above the corn;A stage below, in..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Frog's Fate
Contemptuous of his home beyondThe village and the village-pond,A large-souled Frog who spurned each bywayHopped along the imperial highway.Nor..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Frisky Lamb
A frisky lambAnd a frisky childPlaying their pranksIn a cowslip meadow:The sky all blueAnd the air all mildAnd the fields all sunAnd the lanes half..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Farm Walk
The year stood at its equinoxAnd bluff the North was blowing,A bleat of lambs came from the flocks,Green hardy things were growing;I met a maid with..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Dream
Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)We stood together in an open field;Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,Sporting at ease and..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Dirge
Why were you born when the snow was falling?You should have come to the cuckoo's callingOr when grapes are green in the cluster,Or, at least, when..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Diamond Or A Coal?
A diamond or a coal?A diamond, if you please:Who cares about a clumsy coalBeneath the summer trees?A diamond or a coal?A coal, sir, if you please:One..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Daughter Of Eve
A fool I was to sleep at noon,And wake when night is chillyBeneath the comfortless cold moon;A fool to pluck my rose too soon,A fool to snap my..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A City Plum Is Not A Plum
A city plum is not a plum;A dumb-bell is no bell, though dumb;A party rat is not a rat;A sailor's cat is not a cat;A soldier's frog is not a frog;A..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Christmas Carol
In the bleak mid-winterFrosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,Snow on snow,In the bleak..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Chilly Night
I rose at the dead of nightAnd went to the lattice aloneTo look for my Mother's ghostWhere the ghostly moonlight shone.My friends had failed one by..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Chill
What can lambkins doAll the keen night through?Nestle by their woolly motherThe careful ewe.What can nestlings doIn the nightly dew?Sleep beneath..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
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 withinAnd thirsteth after Me:So will I..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Birthday
My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;My heart is..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Bird’s-Eye View
'Croak, croak, croak,'Thus the Raven spoke,Perched on his crooked treeAs hoarse as hoarse could be.Shun him and fear him,Lest the Bridegroom hear..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Better Ressurection
I have no wit, no words, no tears;My heart within me like a stoneIs numbed too much for hopes or fears.Look right, look left, I dwell alone;I lift..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Ballad Of Boding
There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams;What seems is not always as it seems.I looked out of my window in the sweet new morning,And there I saw..
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
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;The sweet soul gathered home to Paradise,The body waiting here.
© Christina Georgina Rossetti
This Will Not Win Him
Reason says,I will win him with my eloquence.Love says,I will win him with my silence.Soul says,How can I ever win himWhen all I have is already..
© Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi