Christina Rossetti was one of the most important poets of the Victorian age. She wrote several important pieces of poetry, many of which were published in Goblin Market and other Poems. Interest in Rossetti’s poetry has only increased in the decades since her death. Read more about Christina Rossetti.
‘Goblin Market’ is one of Christina Rossetti’s most famous and well-studied poems. The symbolism in the poem has led to a number of interpretations. One could argue that it is a metaphor for drug addiction or female purity.
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
“Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
‘A Bird Song’ by Christina Rossetti describes, through the interactions of swallows, the need a speaker has for a consistent companion.
The poem, A Birthday, with its sixteen lines of distilled beauty, is one of Christian Rossetti’s most popular poems and
‘A Dirge’ by Christina Rossetti is a thoughtful and moving poem about death. It speaks on the birth and death of an important person in the speaker’s life.
‘A Helpmeet For Him’ by Christina Rossetti is a three-stanza poem that is divided into two sets of four lines,
‘A Hope Carol’ describes a liminal space in which a speaker is existing and the elements which inspire her to hope for the future.
‘After Death’ is a Petrarchan Sonnet by Victorian poet Christina Rossetti. It skillfully explores themes of death and tragic love.
‘An Apple Gathering’ is a first-person account of a woman who had a relationship before marriage and suffered the societal consquences.
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in due season when I went to see
I found no apples there.
‘As froth on the face of the deep’ by Christina Rossetti is an eight-line poem that is contained within one
‘At Home’ describes the plight of a ghost who is kept separate from happiness, friends, and her no longer possible future.
‘Babylon the Great’ by Christina Rossetti is a fourteen-line sonnet that is contained within one block of text. The rhyme
‘Conference Between Christ, The Saints, And The Soul’ by Christina Rossetti discusses faith, the afterlife, and how one gets into Heaven.
‘Cousin Kate’ speaks to the circumstance of women during the Victorian era. The period in which Rossetti wrote this poem makes the message all the more meaningful.
‘De Profundis’ by Christina Rossetti describes a speaker’s longing for heaven, and the impossibility of reaching it during one’s lifetime.
Oh why is heaven built so far, Oh why is earth set so remote? I cannot reach the nearest star That hangs afloat.
‘Dream Land’ by Christina Rossetti is a four stanza poem which has been separated into sets eight lines, or octaves.
An echo is a concept that initially might feel ill-suited for poetic purposes. Of course, most are familiar with the
‘From the Antique’, or, as it is sometimes referred to by its opening line, ‘It’s a Weary Life, It Is,
The poem, Good Friday, was composed in the year of 1862 and had its first publication in a book, named
‘Holy Innocents’ by Christina Rossetti is one of the famous devotional poems written by the poet. Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth
‘I wish I could remember that first day’ by Christina Rossetti is also known as ‘First Day.’ It focuses on the speaker’s regret that she can’t remember more about her first love.
I wish I could remember that first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me,
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or winter for aught I can say;
‘In an Artist’s Studio’ describes one artist’s obsession over a particular woman and the way that her face has absorbs his every thought.
‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ describes the birth of the Christ child on a “bleak midwinter” day and those who came to see him.
This poem, ‘In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857′, is focused during the time of Sepoy Mutiny, where
‘Jessie Cameron’ by Christina Rossetti is a ten stanza poem that is divided into sets of twelve lines. These lines
In ‘Let Me Go,’ readers will find a soothing and peaceful depiction of death from the perspective of someone about to face it.
‘Love Came Down at Christmas’ was first published in Time Flies: A Reading Diary in 1885. At that time it
As a form of literature, poetry is an art form that can go into incredible detail to tell stories and
‘May’ by Christina Rossetti describes an unknown, now finished, event a speaker experienced in the warm, young and pleasant month of May.
Rossetti’s Memory is a poem that explores the difficulty she faces in struggling with the connection between earth and heaven.
The poem, No, Thank You, John, is one of Christina Rossetti’s romantic poems and is mainly about a conflicting relationship