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Sang beneath the sunset sky - Christina Rossetti "An Apple Gathering"

Stood full at blessed noon - Christina Rossetti "At Home"

At the cost of all things here - Christina Rossetti "At Last"

Which gold and stone and spices bear - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Their songs wake singing echoes - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

In dreamless sleep locked fast - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Hangs a rainbow strung with dew - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

To sleep with rest and spice and balm - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Whose nest is like a watered shoot - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

That paddles in a halcyon sea - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

A dais of silk and down - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

Carve it in doves and pomegranates - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

And went to the lattice alone - Christina Rossetti "A Chilly Night"

Before the paling of the stars - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [Before the paling of the stars]"

Earth stood hard as iron - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"

Heaven cannot hold Him nor earth sustain - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [In the bleak mid-winter]"

Where glad stars sing together - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

The heavenly host who neither tire nor sleep - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

And sent a dream to warn - Christina Rossetti "A Christmas Carol [The Shepherds had an Angel]"

Wins our hearts with one accord - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Day"

Heart with heart in harmony - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Day"

A darkness brighter than the blazing noon - Christina Rossetti "Christmas Eve"

Blood-red seaweeds drip - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

By the strong sea wrenched and tossed - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Ghosts in flocks and shoals - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Meteors whirling on their poles - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Lover of death's tideless waters - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

The wordless secrets of death's deep - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

Of pale desire in incompleteness - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]

To finished loss or finished gain - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]

Among the lilies lapped in the tender light - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

There twilight lingers the longest - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

But who shall tell the dream? - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

A perfect sunlight on rustling forest tips - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Perfect moonlight upon a rippling stream - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Song and silence are not like these below - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

Close the curtains of branched evergreen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

The first violets will bud unseen - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

In the speaking silence of a dream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

Bright as sunlight on a stream - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

Love of finished years - Christina Rossetti "Echo"

Plucked bitterest fruit to give - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

Desolation answering grief by grief - Christina Rossetti "Eve"

Warm from the least wind - Christina Georgina Rossetti "The Ghost's Petition"

Somewhere among the million stalks - Christina G. Rossetti "A Green Cornfield"

I cannot stem the blast - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Hold me one moment longer - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

His clutch is waxing stronger - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Let these dreams and terrors cease - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

Poor harvest gathered in - Christina Rossetti "The Hour and the Ghost"

To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"

Roofed in with a load of lead - Christina Rossetti "The Poor Ghost"

If you should forget me for a while - Christina Rossetti "Remember"

Better by far you should forget and smile - Christina Rossetti "Remember"

A rose has thorns as well as honey - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"

Nightshade would caress and kill me - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"

The face not seen, the voice not heard - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"

Beyond the wandering moon - Christina Rossetti "Somewhere Or Other"

Sing no sad songs for me - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"

And dreaming through the twilight - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"

My heart's quiet home - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"

To crown your honoured name - Christina Rossetti "[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]"

With the flawless band of inner solitude - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

Despite Time's winnowing - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

Till Death shall ply his sieve - Christina Rossetti "The Thread of Life"

Three sang of love together - Christina Rossetti "A Triad"

For when the slow dark hours begin - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

Will not keep you standing at the door - Christina Rossetti "Up-Hill"

Where the leaves hang trembling - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"

When the trees bow down their heads - Christina Rossetti "Who Has Seen the Wind"

But leave the truth untested - Christina Rossetti "Winter: My Secret"

And subtle serpents gliding in her hair - Christina Rossetti "The World"

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