greykit.poetry — Christina Rossetti
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1904
[christina-rossetti]
In the Bleak Midwinter
Earth hard as iron, water like a stone — what can she give the Lord God in the bleak midwinter? Only what she can: give my heart.
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1862
[christina-rossetti]
A Better Resurrection
No wit, no words, no tears; a heart like a stone, a faded leaf, a broken bowl — each stanza handing the ruin over to be remade: cast in the fire the perished thing, and melt and remould it.
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1862
[christina-rossetti]
Goblin Market
Laura succumbs to the goblin merchants' enchanted fruit and wastes away; her sister Lizzie braves the goblins to win the antidote and save her — a narrative poem of temptation, sacrifice, and the redemptive bond between sisters.
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1862
[christina-rossetti]
Remember
Rossetti urges her beloved to remember her after death, then revises the plea — better he should forget and smile than remember and be sad.
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1862
[christina-rossetti]
Up-Hill
A traveller's questions and a steady voice answering: the road winds uphill all the way, the journey takes the whole long day, and yes — there will be beds for all who come.
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1861
[christina-rossetti]
A Birthday
Rossetti's jubilant lyric — the heart like a singing bird, an apple tree, a rainbow shell — all gladder than all these, because the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.