Rossetti – Robin’s Nest

Poetry Please because poetry always pleases

I have a large collection of books, even some going back to the 1800s. and amid them are many poetry books. Some I inherited from my father, school prizes won by him and by his sister, Dorothy, who died very young. There is Longfellow, Yeats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning – running on to Rossetti, to whichContinue reading “Poetry Please because poetry always pleases”

Promises Like Piecrust

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Promise me no promises, So will I not promise you: Keep we both our liberties, Never false, and never true: Let us hold the die uncast, Free to come as free to go: For I cannot know your past, And of mine what can you know? You so warm, may once haveContinue reading “Promises Like Piecrust”

A Daughter of Eve

by Christina Rossetti 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 all-forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it wasContinue reading “A Daughter of Eve”