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Title: Poems

Author: Christina G. Rossetti

Release Date: September 5, 2006 [EBook #19188]
[Date last updated: September 11, 2006]

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[Illustration]

POEMS.

BY

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

[Illustration: "Golden head by golden head"]

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1906.

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AUTHOR'S EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

1876.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.

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TO

MY MOTHER,

IN ALL REVERENCE AND LOVE,

_I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK_.

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THE AUTHOR TO HER AMERICAN READERS.

My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatory words: either it
will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it.

Its reappearance, however, in an American edition, gives me a welcome
opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy and liberality of Messrs.
Roberts Brothers, who have arranged with me and with my kind friend and
publisher, Mr. Macmillan, to bring it before the American public.

CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.

London.

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CONTENTS.

GOBLIN MARKET, ETC.

Goblin Market
In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
Dream-land
At Home
From Sunset to Starrise
Love from the North
Winter Rain
A Dirge
Confluents
Noble Sisters
Spring
The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
A Birthday
Remember
After Death
An End
My Dream
Song
The Hour and the Ghost
A Summer Wish
An Apple Gathering
Song
Maude Clare
Echo
Winter: My Secret
Another Spring
A Peal of Bells
Fata Morgana
"No, thank you, John"
May
A Pause of Thought
Twilight Calm
Wife to Husband
Three Seasons
Mirage
Shut out
Sound Sleep
Song
Song
Dead before Death
Bitter for Swe