PROBABLY the first impression one gets from reading the Complete Poetical Works of Christina Rossetti, now collected and edited by her brother, Mr. W. M. Rossetti, is that she wrote altogether too ...

ONE of the saintliest of women, as well as one of our finest poets, passed into that rest for which she craved so long while, when Christina Rossetti died. Her life was a song of praise. This song had ...

A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and ...

Christina Rossetti's "Spring," "Restive," and "Acme" deserve greater recognition as effective poems lyrically dramatizing three distinct phases of the poet's theme of disillusionment and loss. In ...

In 1906, a new carol appeared in “The English Hymnal,” an influential collection of British church music. With words by British poet Christina Rossetti, set to a tune by composer Gustav Holst, it ...

Tim was born in 1944, one of 5,000 babies born at Shardeloes when it was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during WWII. His father, Major Hugh Gordon Rice served with the Eighth Army and his ...

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is still beloved today for her timeless poetry—but her creative influence transcends the written word.

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