Classic poetry

Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti

by Christina Rossetti

This selection presents Christina Rossetti's devotional poems, lyrics of disappointed love, nursery verse, sonnets, and haunting narratives. Her deceptively simple music carries persistent concerns with temptation, renunciation, sisterhood, mortality, faith, and the unequal terms offered to women. Works such as “Goblin Market,” “Remember,” and “In the Bleak Midwinter” demonstrate a range extending from sensuous fairy-tale danger to restrained spiritual meditation. Lyrical and quietly fierce, the collection suits readers who enjoy Victorian symbolism, memorable refrains, religious poetry, and verses whose sweetness rarely removes their shadows.