From the Antique (Christina Rossetti Poems)
It's a weary life, it is, she said: Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I ...
It's a weary life, it is, she said: Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I ...
What would I give for a heart of flesh to warm me through, Instead of this heart of stone ice-cold ...
1 Lo d? che han detto a' dolci amici addio. - Dante Amor, con quanto sforzo oggi mi vinci! - ...
Sleep, little Baby, sleep, The holy Angels love thee, And guard thy bed, and keep A blessed watch above thee. ...
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I: Perhaps some day, who knows? But not today; it froze, and blows, ...
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree And wore them all that evening in my hair: Then in due ...
God strengthen me to bear myself; That heaviest weight of all to bear, Inalienable weight of care. All others are ...
I was a cottage maiden Hardened by sun and air Contented with my cottage mates, Not mindful I was fair. ...
Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted ...
I cannot tell you how it was, But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and sunny ...
Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false and never true: ...
I The irresponsive silence of the land, The irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense ...
I sat beneath a willow tree, Where water falls and calls; While fancies upon fancies solaced me, Some true, and ...
She stands as pale as Parian statues stand; Like Cleopatra when she turned at bay, And felt her strength above ...
Something this foggy day, a something which Is neither of this fog nor of today, Has set me dreaming of ...
SAFE where I cannot die yet, Safe where I hope to lie too, Safe from the fume and the fret; ...
Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed sleep: Awake her not. Led by a ...
She sat and sang alway By the green margin of a stream, Watching the fishes leap and play Beneath the ...
Oh why is heaven built so far, Oh why is earth set so remote? I cannot reach the nearest star ...
I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
VI We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things ...
I never said I loved you, John: Why will you tease me day by day, And wax a weariness to ...
When I was dead, my spirit turned To seek the much-frequented house: I passed the door, and saw my friends ...
THE FLESH "Sweet, thou art pale." "More pale to see, Christ hung upon the cruel tree And bore His Father's ...
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